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Who, knowing nothing, claim to know it all. What each intends, or will intend, they know. What in the queen's ear the king said, they know. What never was, or is—they know it, though!
Who, knowing nothing, claim to know it all. What each intends, or will intend, they know. What in the queen's ear the king said, they know. What never was, or is—they know it, though!
Approximate author period: c. 219 BC · classical
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- Plautus
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- Approximate author period: c. 219 BC · classical
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- Life and Literature (copyright 1910) (1910 AD)
Number 169 · printed citation: Plautus
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