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“The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others.”
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- quote
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- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 537fc70a0db9ce435432b1772fc173596cb923d55dc2c80eadee69bdaa3d29c3
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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