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“It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Frag. 385.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f1a41f0ac8238f710691c62e90204547f5e4c9d41cf8392ab205f8d8e3fba500
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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