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“Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Antiope. Frag. 204.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 192bf1102572a73aefb6f0c9c6e6fc44c845b32eae0b163f06dda3c243e26885
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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