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“There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 245.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d5c8e79f0c4c0521eed59172f5ce175230474665a5857a90aefa9e8620a45c08
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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