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“Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 6e89f6383a5a860492880c1688e2a870f14250f184fc3542262748be9292ba0f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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