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“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Book i. Chap. xxx. Of Cannibals.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 24cf192953fe86c037a5a3368788a86ccb492c888dcf2c3f5bc4b3cd423a90a3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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