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“When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I 'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living."”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4b793fb7c73eb28c525f0478eb51e6bd8c6a6b5ade3eb25cc39eae06b7c088d9
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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