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“The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 82dd74081b06f04bdb2a690b0dd844f43f3c779f52aaefcb3db6e7b765b74660
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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