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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:8764
AUTHOR:Plutarch (A.D. 46?–A.D. c. 120)
QUOTATION:“You speak truth,” said Themistocles; “I should never have been famous if I had been of Seriphus; 1 nor you, had you been of Athens.”
ATTRIBUTION:Life of Themistocles.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
An obscure island. [back]
 

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