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“Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e91ac92832fcc800e4ca3c92eb1050e46e0ddf9c93a7bf6aff39aee251c123a7
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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