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“The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly 's at full length.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ee3ec2a7b4d41ee51ce836312b3ad7b8c41017e61a5e37d6fe02b4ce9aaa0f4a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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