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“Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Of Hearing. 6.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1e4305fef0d7daeaf92dfcdc0572b4e14f66f6307f988a661f3ac356c5f0e4a1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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