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“It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched; That what began best can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once prove accurst.”
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- Source:
- Apparent Failure. vii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 735bc17c0ff369254ee60bfaa450dcadee961e0f3d9b2fd139e598e95b53cc15
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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