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“Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2198f9add56bb4d990c01398f8526d1c8043df5f1860e88738c0cf0847415fc3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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