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“Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9d602e1c7655088bbdfe302a9b02f3e124b0c88d1bbef7457522069874eb969f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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