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“Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7ef2eef242f11c734fd8eeea588d8bbfa77f68913b608cedd6af001c2418e314
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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