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Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

Wendell Phillips

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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
Jurist
Lawyer
Politician
Boston
Massachusetts
Many
Flatter
Praise

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My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.
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