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Prompter #5 answer

Thursday, 22 October 2026

The missing words: only want praise

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

Clutton, Of Human Bondage (1915), by W. Somerset Maugham

Players saw the rest of the line and where it comes from, with the 3 words in the highlight left blank (14 letters), and had six tries to fill them in.

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