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“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.”
— Unattributed
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6b9f83630cfa11223d46ea3cbf78dd07b79a83e432466cd5fb2b83c459887c1f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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