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It is only men of practical ability, knowing their powers and using them with moderation and prudence, who will be successful in worldly affairs.
It is only men of practical ability, knowing their powers and using them with moderation and prudence, who will be successful in worldly affairs.
Approximate historical placement: c. 1790 AD · early modern
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- Goethe
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- Approximate historical placement: c. 1790 AD · early modern
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- Maxims and Reflections (1906) (1906 AD)
Printed maxim 19; Bailey Saunders English translation, New York: The Macmillan Company,1906
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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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