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“We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 294.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9cb07b211a404eb4e5dab927b650f4cd9712f58ec9f7f9f9fb51c15bac3f9dd8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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