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“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”
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- Source:
- Of Studies.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b895d3f327fed920d89f02c02aec957f39b1dcc5e739b5545f479660e925f016
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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