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5169. MERIT, Relief of distressed.—
I
do not know that I can proffer you any reward
for this favor [to my friend], other than the
sublime pleasure of relieving distressed merit,
a pleasure which can be properly felt by the
virtuous alone.—
To Thomas Adams.
Ford ed., i, 382.
(1770)
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