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“A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence."”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 964eb9fc09a3dc89e73f2c81247d08bb97f3156847ad3ac7760303872a124bd5
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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