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“Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours that are but skin-deep.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Commentaries. Genesis iii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c15c7a24ef442a95453aec541aedfc12535b6614608b2a2b716d6f2182d47dad
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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