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So the Delphic oracle pronounced Socʹratēs to be, and Socrates modestly made answer, “ʹTis because I alone of all the Greeks know that I know nothing.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.