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It Is A Maxim With Me That No Man Was Ever Written Out Of Reputation But By Himself.
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It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation
but by himself.
-- Richard Bentley (1662-1742)
-- Monk's Life of Bentley, Page 90
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