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“Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c593c9479b63606862dea2bd6990bb4e2a81cb288ec0c53d85d7701e328e40c1
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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