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“Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Commentaries. Ecclesiastes vii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a0dba86b4b092d65343ede7da470775cee541cb3c19591a150eb674b1eab5c16
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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