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“Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Table Talk. Learning.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6ebc97e83df6654536cc7a028e2b0e923995aa5808324f138397e8a5c9e5ccf8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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