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“Good at a fight, but better at a play; Godlike in giving, but the devil to pay.”
Provenance
- Source:
- On a Cast of Sheridan's Hand.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5f0f8fc60068ccbe701652ac930ab6e7cc84bdce333e27e5c30d2fc2ed05e716
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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