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“Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8b8ad497e262cded5a89099ae4e49b5ae6da86fc0ef78c03249f3a222321a57f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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