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“We are firm believers in the maxim that for all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.”
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- Source:
- Goethe. Edinburgh Review, 1828.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bfe6d3496ee9afe71ca96776ea543665c5baf85616a44b35a50028e93fc46c87
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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