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“A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 267.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 64b58177fc4663d51afa9388c272f8e2cb38a634158626256cba40f7d30f509c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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