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“Zeno first started that doctrine that knavery is the best defence against a knave.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Of Bashfulness.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3d3311a1ee8852abcc9ab47033756b134665d7357a7c71a3e96724263127ad99
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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