| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 1955 |
| AUTHOR: | Francis Bacon (15611626) |
| QUOTATION: | It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are; but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Of Seeming Wise. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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