maxim · Words worth keeping
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
In print by 1905 AD · modern
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- Publius Syrus
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- In print by 1905 AD · modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Maxim 469.
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