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“The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others.”
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- Book
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- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 24b99e874af6cb75066ea43211e4b85b17a6d9b8e0c249e0fa9a5361fb667c99
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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