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“There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5bcee4d7d36b228bdad943d75a1dcfa1c08a0f4156e382937027e7c50524fe1e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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