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“We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 25.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9b82d102eb3dc19c77dc61cf93214a43b8d461a242c5f3365a3051b87a2262ff
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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