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“For words are wise men's counters,--they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Leviathan. Part i. Chap. iv.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- edeca22f99b19b1d5fb576f98924a6835c6be80539a45280ba925eab787696ce
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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