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“The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 416.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4868c04c25882055b5d7803893f0645e9aedd99f609ab4c57d6a788c3576ea3f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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