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“Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 29ef2315ea277edb5200c212bd323a5a5578c9c33626fb88f970afcdb341c2ff
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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