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Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.
Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.
Approximate author period: c. 445 BC · classical
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- Euripides
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- Approximate author period: c. 445 BC · classical
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Euripides. · page_487
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