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“Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."”
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- Source:
- Apothegms. No. 193.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 13955cf1653ab08bdd389fc1c69d9563a638fc345242e5704e4e9b5714692b8d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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