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I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.

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