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Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. . . . I well know that mirror of friendship, shadow of a shade.
Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. . . . I well know that mirror of friendship, shadow of a shade.
Approximate author period: c. 491 BC · classical
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- Æschylus
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- Approximate author period: c. 491 BC · classical
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Agamemnon, 832.
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