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“Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates; and when the rest said, "We are undone if we are known,"--"But I," said he, "am undone if we are not known."”
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- Source:
- Bion. iii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a1e4b8a4c11f9d4d955c2db7c27e303796c0d465806a36a5e64282d150608292
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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