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“It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 158787fee20125e4e3ec05baacb0142cec26990ca6e2cfbc57d9973dd12de608
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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