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“Being asked whether it was better to marry or not, he replied, "Whichever you do, you will repent it."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Socrates. xvi.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e430e061af33143508c6463742cd73b0331c4936c69ddb1dd873241b33ae60b9
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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