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“Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged, yet if sincere in its moment's extravagant goodness, why, trust it, and know the man by it, I say,--not by his performance; which is half the world's work, interfere as the world needs must with its accidents and circumstances: the profession was purely the man's own. I judge people by what they might be,--not are, nor will be.”
— Robert Browning
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2026-07-04
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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