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“We may with advantage at times forget what we know.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 234.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0490b3153caed7acbcdaa9276f0544fd7789aa246825740fcaab3063e3e7ced3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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