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“In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world; as to say, "The world says," or "There is a speech abroad."”
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- Source:
- Of Cunning.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4f7a84f2b693894a8d2605b0a55be47940eddd862abb32c076d90260a19eb765
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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