Every word that we utter rouses its contrary.
Every word that we utter rouses its contrary.
- Source
- Maxims and Reflections (1906)
Printed maxim 288; Bailey Saunders English translation, New York: The Macmillan Company,1906
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- attributed · historical anthology
Preserved as printed; independently unverified. - Historical coordinate
- c. 1790 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1749–1832); not quotation composition date; not composition date. - Rights & edition
- Public domain (United States)
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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