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“Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 53017984784b59eb515cd8fab6a1a567c36e41d50c461c93d05ca8f217fb1c5f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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