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NUMBER:33625
QUOTATION:The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
ATTRIBUTION:Charles Lamb (1775–1834), British essayist, critic. Athenaeum (London, Jan. 4, 1834), “Table Talk by the Late Elia.”
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:Lamb Collection.
 
 
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