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“Great men are not always wise.”
— Unattributed
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1d2c5e622b6682344a0e7cf16dea60b51c8474e4738f871ef14d58746e073bc9
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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