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“Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6499f3ecfe6de5b992ba2b89a97e1d49b69019390466e9b5f17f8f5578f6e690
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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