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“He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 459.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6754c10992f78df6f3bd8ca3a081d2da7d6c95a25f21fcd15264f5bef3674bee
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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