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“Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Vivian Grey. Book vi. Chap. vii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d4ad87ae0a34e65bf0d3e52773a6e81a914f0baa60ef574c0b62665ac3dde40f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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