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“The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 466f2683dd539367651c7ffb7fcc16a212dfdc33159e8d01bff7da2a949e435b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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