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“Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Timon of Athens. Act iii. Sc. 5.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8cfc942ef07fa696d1e059f7de8ea38e62817874c8c4335d4928ad631ac259ad
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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