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“Oft hath even a whole city reaped the evil fruit of a bad man.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Works and Days. Line 240.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c1cffd77889e1141315c0d2694107f534b7556de13a385e49411c4afc95c3ea1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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