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“It is a difficult thing for a man to resist the natural necessity of mortal passions.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 73af931337a3c97a51012047a8fa1964960df5c988cdb46df13f770eb4464508
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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