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“Imitation is the sincerest flattery.”
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- Source:
- The Lacon.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c5d360de505381281026d58c40909eaf82cb0261b759d1416055d6a6bd4359d0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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