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“Second thoughts are ever wiser.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Hippolytus. Frag. 436.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 15e43aeed6352346f8f141f03c11005155f6cb3a2eeb838ab0955a75d72c069e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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