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“Thinking is but an idle waste of thought, And nought is everything and everything is nought.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Rejected Addresses. Cui Bono?
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0c6e607a62d1506b851982ee13a88cb22d7e49129eb746deb04263c005e76194
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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