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“Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 39.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d3898a7833836ebacff8edbfdbe5d4403a7b8c9a4705fe2d141ea42ca7d8ae6d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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