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“He said that in his whole life he most repented of three things: one was that he had trusted a secret to a woman; another, that he went by water when he might have gone by land; the third, that he had remained one whole day without doing any business of moment.”
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- Source:
- Life of Marcus Cato.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5eff602effe6a3508149da7dc8bf6a490ca0395ae092f424d7a14aae5b11f114
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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