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“The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8a66a88059163540b6f7349b2c5685f29eaf80c8bff355d9cf62056228c2bf50
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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