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“Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.”
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- Book
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- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- fe0a3e0c33bb71cda14c7b93be851221f36b927339a40ee217813b29c28aec7b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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