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“Remember what Simonides said,--that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bbdaf6fa6861fecae56ea184bb56e8ab04aee86dde4a61efbf7b8dc51d9ec5ff
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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