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“A lie never lives to be old.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Acrisius. Frag. 59.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 725b84760f3da6eec3a2f25bc7edd528d6ccd209e9be52141813443f58a12758
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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