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“Themistocles said that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can be shown only by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Life of Themistocles.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c233b73bf1e8c989f3f1384d7b581dbaf7c63909c4200ce894d51dc2555e931b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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