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Avoiding Quote by Plutarch

“Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies…” quote by Plutarch — Download Open image

“Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.”

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