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Fortune helps the brave.

Fortune helps the brave.
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Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing)
Phormio. Act i. Sc. 4, 25. (203.)
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attributed · historical anthology
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c. 172 BC · classical
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Public domain (United States)
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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