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“Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Menedemus. iii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 76440d9a4491f4fd5ae00a621a4eb768fa88ef891571239c77c1bc80d345f6d9
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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