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“I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b470eb812b7d0a4aab6e06a297bbf8f0717067a0e9869e7ee45cce82da2a3363
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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