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“Like sending owls to Athens, as the proverb goes.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Plato. xxxii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 74cc9fda0043d388ca34841ae08cba1bb4a0f7fdfd6650b0529242cea544fca6
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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