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“To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Life of Fabius.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5351351a2de6290f13486479115de6d94efcd2c54d2fafe6c8686a8e178fca5c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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