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For ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
For ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
Approximate historical placement: c. 83 AD · classical
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- Approximate historical placement: c. 83 AD · classical
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Life of Pericles.
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