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We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
-William Shakespeare
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We Wound Our Modesty And Make Foul

William Shakespeare
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
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