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“On their own merits modest men are dumb.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Epilogue to the Heir at Law.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 514e61eced130f7c8454c0c9bf1428ff595bbda70741779aeeabb0c0921b932c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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