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“We 'll shine in more substantial honours, And to be noble we 'll be good.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Winifreda (1720).
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 108f070c5f43a29b77699b5388a5b000df879ba49529ee3b346ab6f99a1102a4
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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