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Secret informing brings an honest man to shame;
I charge because I must, nor seek to hide my name.

— Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset Le Méchant (1745)

Un rapport clandestin n'est pas d'un honnête homme;
Quand j'accuse quelqu'un, je le dois, et me nomme.

Original text (French)

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