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“I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Suppliants, 453.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 70c353070e6eb54783c8dd17f084332243549d7151f342fa277ca7ffe2373b60
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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