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“They that govern the most make the least noise.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Table Talk. Power.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fbf345b0737ee1c5e39d8588c790defa0dbfdebbf04700310e68e8f054b60366
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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