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“Leo Byzantius said, "What would you do, if you saw my wife, who scarce reaches up to my knees? . . . Yet," went he on, "as little as we are, when we fall out with each other, the city of Byzantium is not big enough to hold us."”
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- Source:
- Political Precepts.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 49d6fbab218c7789f76586cb604d8114d543117a9b714a9363f6d36c959bbe7d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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