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“Like watermen, who look astern while they row the boat ahead.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8011ab6dce60e550c4c7286695b0e48b6ddd6f4e2156f35166d198fc5f2db986
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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