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“Riches certainly make themselves wings.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ea8a9f289442a0e21d91f0745d54a51715e62ed5e512e72e0dce15fa73b76379
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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