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“The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 127.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e27dca8eafc3c1d74bfb3886c06773167bc885892b38e3abefc124dc2c8d1c32
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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