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“Euripides was wont to say, "Silence is an answer to a wise man."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Of Bashfulness.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9fd6c65df0533fe226bb184cc43e96efa13117b1c6b31fa0243408cc25885ad2
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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