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“He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8cdcee269c349d616370141f6098534faec2ee79742bda06b64f003b973e5e27
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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