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“Usually we praise only to be praised.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 146.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d93ed39eafd5013f8877dad508a9c5dce4b29f23a6f538a25ed2c44d46bee7ad
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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