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He who is false to present duty, breaks a thread in the loom, and will find a flaw, when he may have forgotten the cause.
He who is false to present duty, breaks a thread in the loom, and will find a flaw, when he may have forgotten the cause.
Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Henry Ward Beecher
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- Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1813 to 1887; Wikidata Q1607404, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1607404 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 319; printed byline: Henry Ward Beecher; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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