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“Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To the bottom of the worst.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8f953c9dce54dca1bf53fc2ace444c9d09f83cedf3cca32447db2b9a13b4aebe
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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