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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Approximate author period: c. 1784 AD · early modern
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- Thomas Jefferson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1784 AD · early modern
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