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“From ignorance our comfort flows. The only wretched are the wise.”
Provenance
- Source:
- To the Hon. Charles Montague.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f99f71b416e36cf28cc3e42b553ddead1ab339c957a961a8b777d4112ad057d9
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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