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“Xenophanes said, "I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Of Bashfulness.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 10996dd4797fea95c6eb59cf33f460ff99215fde77c7c7c481fe4aad08b982c4
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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