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“There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Excursion. Book iv.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3b38b886435327fa83a89dd8e248c2a5d92e45055493937860bfe19879f2f897
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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