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Be firm: one certain element in luck Is genuine, solid old Teutonic pluck.
Be firm: one certain element in luck Is genuine, solid old Teutonic pluck.
Approximate author period: c. 1809 AD · industrial
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- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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- Approximate author period: c. 1809 AD · industrial
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 346; printed byline: Oliver Wendell Holmes; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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