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“Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2d51bf247a87a96ff42b64cf3fda77e66873fa06ee9986d7d81dafcf3521795d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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