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“The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 377.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 82973d0280e56a445bdb22a4ea144d8e3dc2a65cf123eae2b96c8ad40f1cc675
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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