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“Not greedy of filthy lucre.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 700e1bbc914e2e74a0c311e84eb01c212fc831818037ac8eff12786cee9e452e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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