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“Often when he was looking on at auctions he would say, "How many things there are which I do not need!"”
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- Source:
- Socrates. x.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bf2d0fdd0f0606cb73692a45043010ca0cc018cf5c1c0624b708d67f79a2fc5d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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