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“A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Dunciad. Book iv. Line 90.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ae1b076cc0764971c48bdb61de4640c9648c2195cecc2b7de51c7331b62b34c7
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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