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“Shall I show you the muscular training of a philosopher? "What muscles are those?"--A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 24e402b587586a91a955249f1473c67c2d9de95871a1389a74a475612053eff0
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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