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“Said Periander, "Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage."”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 7ee509b97900b8215f159e3b7d95b43f580e11e166aadbb7c40995fd0c939512
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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