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“I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b9e342b4701817892475394cddc00144f5f6d03bf47845ff37e77a8da176373b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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