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“'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.”
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- Source:
- Cadenus and Vanessa.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- eaaa262ac146eef13cc71a0c0ca9999e9609be4fa3e38b3389156b45f76b8280
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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