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“The gods looked with favour on superior courage.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Historiæ. iv. 17.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ec0cbe9f9d25c0c33c9942819bc3d514f23790aa46da14c6d3b540ec83861270
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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