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“When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue."”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7fa01c2eeb980261550a796f567e3b3b77dd21f1510319fa4fac922cf25f0f92
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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