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“I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Speech (23 September 1907)
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e494238f095fd3deb62c0b6163893c26ccb660a889c558d0a1e5cf6a383f4372
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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