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“Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet,--perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!”
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- Source:
- New Morality.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 625a0542a2338a5698ef1e5a9ea41288c8432797a9a98c8f69547d4f0d5a26c7
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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