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“And there 's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Juvenal, Satire ix.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9cf8143769b630a06575ecab96bccf19f29b210de7d130930e0244f1c24274e5
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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