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“Private credit is wealth; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4467c380a35065f48766413e3a5a60213b35f62e5cf3b1f3c289269fdc3560a4
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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