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“It is only the first step which costs.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7358823cede866c400dd730a216358bdbb0d1253334421b7e5400e70d514b06f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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