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“Promise is most given when the least is said.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Musæus of Hero and Leander.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b17e5b9f97a9c59962c0685fe4f54c3373d19f5d3b8597a39f6ae3bcd6419a35
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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