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“Philosophy is nothing but discretion.”
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- Source:
- Table Talk. Philosophy.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c9d0370d331057f5d9efa90d2f005c450c1dc647793860f1c3f76a6c2c9c246b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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