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“The mountains, too, at a distance appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand, they are rough.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Pyrrho. ix.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cb11f8538e54185d30c8ea6803befd320588cca59b9b3308d7583e42dee6754f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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