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“It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Xenophanes. iii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f040d2d35ad1ce197953acb7120eda781d947217c986899ff6600ded00c75bb1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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