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“Can't I another's face commend, And to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lowers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5da7a1f4621c6af9e106009a5e9fe0482ff8fe9ef781161dbaf0905d7c2a2df1
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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