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“Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 26b4301c0a37e7f7fdbdaa70926fc3c9348d647c06442e1eb7d59f8cb0c4afb7
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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