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“Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- f3c2fce39b3db9b6c2e0e54a169261ed225fde9d06e9c446f17973cf9e187d01
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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