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“It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.” quote by Niccolo Machiavelli — Download Open image

“It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.”

Niccolo Machiavelli

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