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“It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise. 'T is more by art than force of num'rous strokes.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 25299c671de24800a3066018e336ae6b875d8334634d3b86e51f6301dd862cf1
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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