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“In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 549c9c71e54a2ee9e5ef373e49261bf7f8f9fa417c84b7e2554bbd8108771f46
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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