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“In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside.”
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- Source:
- Discourses. Chap. xxvi.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6edaed1bbb4f79aaf8743306795610dc4afb4120c1d8e0471eae55b7422bfc9d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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