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“We are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is yet alive, and at praising him when he is dead.”
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- Source:
- Frag. 1.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0c1aa9b2ebae7042270e74ac63fa472c34501b92cc41da40273728e30f88719b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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