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“It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Monk's Life of Bentley. Page 90.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2c2814209fb31a8d8bf805db57e6ff3156e3ade48eed3f773123ebde381197ba
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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