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“Where none admire, 't is useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 't is vain to be a belle.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 41e02b85011822a9c224807c17f94e08306857102251bd63551de94e95589e44
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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