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“Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Pittacus. ii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2727fb2e4fe0692de8fef27fab345d150c1bb19a0869d9fc02d5146a1ab1c9c4
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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