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We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true.
We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true.
Approximate author period: c. 720 BC · ancient
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- Hesiod
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- Approximate author period: c. 720 BC · ancient
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
The Theogony. Line 27.
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