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“My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character [as an author], he deserved to have his merits handsomely allowed.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 256d4b2396cc6fa1dd53693330e0ac09be873a854444a89773989afdccc81176
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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