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“The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Bee. No. iii. Oct. 20, 1759.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 14b6c3ba1bafecd587fabb36a66de657aed6fc05b801be63300be4d8842fbbce
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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