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“Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 22.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 932b6ac38c2ff0bd1b0c68df18cb358aeab87636bc0a004b0cd2557ee0bc7c82
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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