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“Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Table Talk. Pope.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b64da4f84f438c1dbc35b3be748043d932e696190772561d4983f25bae55e183
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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