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“Wit and wisdom are born with a man.”
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- Source:
- Table Talk. Learning.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 53ba01dedee36a7459788bede7be2a8958deef3e226084a22fbac110fc501172
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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