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“... none seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing, but from the abuse of a very good thing.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 55185994fb4102ff5f66f0089d326a717ec6ec3de4410317f4cefd1225b9db24
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