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The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.
Provenance
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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