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“A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Meditations. v. 6.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b58bda2559ead473e72590229f2d17812145bb394a69d7068ba43442beae9798
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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