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“Immortal gods! how much does one man excel another! What a difference there is between a wise person and a fool!”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e9f837d4c05c2fa9feedf7c6ece866ac1624b8eee9cd4b9ef996ef40c56a38b7
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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“Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.”
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“No creature smarts so little as a fool.”
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.”
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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