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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:8406
AUTHOR:Miscellaneous
QUOTATION:Private credit is wealth; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.
ATTRIBUTION:Letters of Junius. Letter xlii. Affair of the Falkland Islands.
 

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