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“Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d587572d7b0d5138751d977b3160665c214d7de47c3e80f7bfac93e81a2aae4b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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