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“It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Book i. Chap. ix. Of Liars.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 48f4e12179a17b81bab0da62afe4b4564490cec3ceb8d10afaff8a27a54dcb6d
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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