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“Answer a fool according to his folly.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1c77937ffad778a926eda4bc5ad6e047d9d556ae1c84b11fe92c62be932c4f85
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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