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“Those who are pleased with flattery must be ignorant of their own merit.”

Warning that dependence on praise may reveal insecurity rather than excellence · Essay / moral writing

About Hannah More

Hannah More

2 February 1745–7 September 1833

Hannah More was born on 2 February 1745 at Fishponds, then a village near Bristol in Gloucestershire, and died on 7 September 1833 at Clifton, Bristol. During her long life she became, in succession and sometimes simultaneously, a schoolteacher, playwright, poet, essayist, novelist, religious writer, philanthropist…

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