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“Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow proves the substance true.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4f6ee7654aa29f046a3711a92515f93b0f4b309945dcf6262b165174d38e9244
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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