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“Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune; He had not the method of making a fortune.”
Provenance
- Source:
- On his own Character.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0f8418342d51579a78764c29fe2a3bce4d5b28e3c4179f3262e231b717d084b1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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