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“If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
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- 2026-07-04
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- 4593f896128bca6fa01d1f5412cbd9fcfc90308af392a55e67e15fc00c36428f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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