Nothing is so expensive as glory.
Nothing is so expensive as glory.
- Source
- Pearls of Thought (1881)
Page 101 · printed citation: Sydney Smith · subject: Glory
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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