A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes. ✨ …

Joseph Addison
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A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes. ✨ Joseph Addison (1761). The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;, p.441
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