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“He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 598.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 91ca8a6205986caceddb4bebb4c7c01e996332c0c206b73737a9913090678fbe
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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