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“When he was praised by some wicked men, he said, "I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Antisthenes. iv.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9ca1017be68a93f8504c6720dd5dce45d40a5b8c8a50cf1d891de04735b8f526
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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