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“Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil.”
Provenance
- Source:
- On Machiavelli. 1825.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4f2a20fd2a37f5857492f8023d82e1b64e15b0cf9bdb404cf61838d1813e2281
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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