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“Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Just Italian. Act v. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4e67d574b4a48e54f56bfd8305a350e37b22c1eac9623fec4fd8a155317a3674
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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