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“One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger's breadth of being mad; for if a man walked with his middle finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were his forefinger.”
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- Source:
- Diogenes. vi.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 095b3e23d4f67cca53d0b3fc8c350104c5fdc5401d1ad3609dbb41768aa10ef2
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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