If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not. (Francis Bacon)

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

Francis Bacon

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