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“I, who have so much and so universally adored this ariston metron, "excellent mediocrity," of ancient times, and who have concluded the most moderate measure the most perfect, shall I pretend to an unreasonable and prodigious old age?”
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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