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“Clever men are good, but they are not the best.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Goethe. Edinburgh Review, 1828.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 95660d62fe4f72d246ace33a6e4bcfa5055c79f07f90936e782c94a47a193701
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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