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“Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Of the Training of Children.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 44e83548a0b9fe5629a3f187364be8b5bbca480d8f5174f7cf7b8f97ae90a350
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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