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“Their strength is to sit still.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7f5d4a3c13364cd6e8e3987bf5ec2bbc0e8ac1d2d0f690ffea3988f2cb7bc623
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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