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- 36% sureLots of sources credit Leonardo da Vinci with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- widely attributed, no primary source found — absent entirely from da Vinci's Wikiquote page (checked all sections including Disputed/Misattributed) and no notebook/folio citation exists anywhere
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