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“Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Meditations. vi. 3.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9273d6fae798bbc2fcead7f4e0465b245731a4289c9aa53edace84441828c7f6
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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