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“Of right and wrong he taught Truths as refined as ever Athens heard; And (strange to tell!) he practised what he preached.”
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- Book
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- 2026-07-04
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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