No prince, how great soever, begets his predecessors, and the noblest rivers are not navigable to the fountain.
A. Marvell · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 385
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No prince, how great soever, begets his predecessors, and the noblest rivers are not navigable to the fountain.
A. Marvell · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 385
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