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“Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Deserted Village. Line 161.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c9762e8c02698795abf6e9bcbda8a6e35a10aece12284dda65f3c720d16f1621
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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