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“The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Speech, Nov. 19, 1870.
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6d9df795ef44bafc67f64753053db41d622020d2a50b39b1c97a0688d98ac204
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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