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“Round numbers are always false.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Johnsoniana. Hawkins. 235.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8b7a62965e337759aa7ed82081c240dbf8569bfd4322d887ee2c0b1685f8bda7
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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