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We get no good by being ungenerous, even to a book.
We get no good by being ungenerous, even to a book.
Approximate historical placement: c. 1833 AD · industrial
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- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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- Approximate historical placement: c. 1833 AD · industrial
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 433; printed byline: E. B. Browning; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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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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