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“We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Theogony. Line 27.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ab9c137abaa4a21a2a9fe3fc7ea2db1a7c05c875f1c5ac36225c50bee952c642
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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