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“It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Speech, Jan. 24, 1860.
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 900432d4a6712e7ff77245d298457e405dd6bd1f5f2c415aa0bd37043d3dc697
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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