T Is Better To Be Vile Than Vile Esteem'd, When Not To Be Receives Reproach Of Being

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'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.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Sonnets & other Poetry
-- Sonnet cxxi

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