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“Every one excels in something in which another fails.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 17.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ff78696b1da45cd694da768ccc0e3c7142f2ec22fa9448e4f31e78b0970a7fd7
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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