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“Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Meditations. iv. 20.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f0a7ba0023b5262dec659194bedcd4a625df92ff557005cfe24dd077b21b5e61
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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