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“Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 57602844721c920dc34d0ca436829538848b33a609349e00d1bee09341bbc27a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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