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“So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Life of Pericles.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0d5f17339ad28133ea9b3316681228c34414ce858acc797769cd8f8a23ab6827
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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