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“Open rebuke is better than secret love.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 42bec589b99e594ec2b151144a46dd51e66de56a9dbb4e34854500285b1e2240
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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