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“He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.”
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- Source:
- Meditations. ix. 2.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9dfeb7486cdbb61fd9a13d9826948a9384a372402c512e7c070bffae82413c3b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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