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could have exclaimed with equal reason
In vacuo lćtus sessor plausorque theatro— and could have exclaimed with equal reason against the friendly hands that cured us— Pol me occidistis, amici, Non servâstis, ait; cui sic extorta voluptas, Et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus error.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

critics have erred with equal recklessness
It may be said that better critics have erred with equal recklessness.
— from Hours in a Library, Volume 2 New Edition, with Additions by Leslie Stephen

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