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“They are perfect; how else?--they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?--we have time in store.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Old Pictures in Florence. xvi.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8225caaa690619b7d4b080da7a82afa2493a8d37c4ccf8c735bb5ff8e68ba589
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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