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“He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Annales. vi. 39, 17.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4c63c911262e2491b56d1b5e33cb8f88d3fe66b0045416fe64f06645e2dfc821
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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