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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:3073
AUTHOR:Mathew Henry (1662–1714)
QUOTATION:Blushing is the colour of virtue. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Commentaries. Jeremiah iii.
 
Note 1.
Diogenes once saw a youth blushing, and said: “Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.”—Diogenes Laertius: Diogenes, vi. [back]
 

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