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“'T is better to be vile than vile esteem'd, When not to be receives reproach of being; And the just pleasure lost which is so deem'd, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Sonnet cxxi.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c6ecf9d698b0cb63c9d220eea922e51a96b4a30c2fe154fc311e0fdc9adcfaeb
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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