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“Wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.”
— Unattributed
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2ef1357bc80dcb605547adbf5e40eef9bebf495484d30daaf079a6a22dd458ee
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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