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“The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.”
Provenance
- Source:
- On the Tranquillity of the Mind.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 594bab9db2985b749ce0159a3d6096a7a7e9578ced75d8bd6ba0b1bbc0c94078
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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