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“What is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Idler. No. 74.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5a5ebce62fc7582e7ea74abf7a492e78560de3880214f8061a495458510205cb
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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