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“Fools! they know not how much half exceeds the whole.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Works and Days. Line 40.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ada8cec786a43f2467b99beee7353c4a267f172cc2ea7848b6057ac930101e4d
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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