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“The kings of modern thought are dumb.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bd84a4d6a1b7e2a9676cbce4ed596d4ac71db519cfe61a09259168be91d7ae5f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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