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“It is more easy to get a favour from fortune than to keep it.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 282.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6daa35897c207011b9d58b0266443426a96240db3466720d76d25427e6f57199
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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