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“It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 780.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3c58bdaddb794863d90b3b855e57265a6c9ad5cf4ff928ee941f0e6c7019568c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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