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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
Provenance
- Source:
- As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 007f4a157da230b984c92cc0cbe39ab616c8c09730332c06b4b7c0a4d2b6a70c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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