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“The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 39bdd12b4b2899500de305e948b903ef6ce10ce3207f7438fa819f36ceec615a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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