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“In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Satires, ii. 2. (111.)
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 57ee977dc5a7b26c02e0b84bdd762647d424c867dd7080f2d8dea47fecb6409f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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