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“Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 911.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 408f63fe6466374f95fd4762e37c77964a9b5a2a607dd4eb9fb56ce4c2d3d161
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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