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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

1923 William Shakespeare 1564-1616 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:1923
AUTHOR:William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
QUOTATION:’T is better to be vile than vile esteem’d,
When not to be receives reproach of being;
And the just pleasure lost which is so deem’d,
Not by our feeling, but by others’ seeing.
ATTRIBUTION:Sonnet cxxi.  [text]
WORKS:William Shakespeare Collection.