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Praise is the best diet for us after all.
Praise is the best diet for us after all.
Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- Sydney Smith
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- Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- Life and Literature (copyright 1910) (1910 AD)
Number 1554 · printed citation: Sydney Smith
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