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“In idle wishes fools supinely stay; Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Birth of Flattery.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ace25e73a55a25c27f5822749cb248711c41ab973badabfb411044d3ce540dec
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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