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“Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Johnsoniana. Hannah More. 467.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a4e8d7dacc7c60947c75930d5dbfb0edcbb3c67d50d1bb35ad18a3790c4298f0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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