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“Look round the habitable world: how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Juvenal. Satire x.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1657d1a23cc6200c21e3cbfd8c30bd5ab50471b2aca89fc8535e7c128f6e325b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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