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“Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.”
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- Source:
- Apothegms. No. 64.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7dd9f8fa45a8046c99b115ddf89453c56db083c5592ef9b596c49d16b16510bb
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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