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“The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Life of Alexander.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6fd923a4c4188ae5a7e9a6eb0d7be754639558a3ec3e0ddab5d0ae4be13c9f1a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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