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“I know, indeed, the evil of that I purpose; but my inclination gets the better of my judgment.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Medea. 1078.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5228f2f774608d2eabd61003332c276ac3f95802b0721f3f5191576b130cdb88
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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