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“Delays have dangerous ends.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7b4642c1e96ed06937305f2e8a9672b20e96740a74178a7cad800f8c32599eeb
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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