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“He was a man, which, as Plato saith, is a very inconstant creature.”
Provenance
- Source:
- On the Tranquillity of the Mind.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- db0a1f319496eedcada05826b75883b0e61b7749f09e3bd3f03d59147dbefd22
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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