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We should be sparing in our intimacies; because it so very often happens that the more perfectly men are understood, the less they are esteemed.
We should be sparing in our intimacies; because it so very often happens that the more perfectly men are understood, the less they are esteemed.
Approximate author period: c. 1425 AD · medieval
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- Thomas À Kempis
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- Approximate author period: c. 1425 AD · medieval
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Thomas à Kempis. · page_528
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