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“If it is not seemly, do it not; if it is not true, speak it not.”
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- Source:
- Meditations. xii. 17.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ffbaef4d54d9e8b85139d26a7a56eb103aaad0c4d20d282dbfdaaf07d03935e6
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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