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“It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 785.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7c33db8827a15ee25ea725b3082164999f92a480e4e0f5ee7496e403a7b33c5a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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