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“Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.”
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- Source:
- Meditations. viii. 22.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cc352d93fdf7ee705ffa4c561865ffcf011ad810cf1f43cc01578a03490b5598
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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