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“Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Ladder of Saint Augustine.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3f11ba7e0b6a3f449f906fb54ec3b7e91a43632006581b9119bb961c59787259
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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