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“It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Commentaries. Timothy iii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8396354a0075ba866d6d92ca3a092deecade1e4d823baa2d637f05000da93091
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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