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“Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Thoughts on Various Subjects.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 347d28a693a58d2eb6afe426027cdbe425c315cc1c7ffc7134ab67a2f51921b1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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