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“They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 759.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 86dbfc4a7be833b817ce60d496a3b22ec97a96d0d8921486b072cbd53f163e47
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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