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“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3fc248bd5645ea47e16c67eed9582de371e53b0043bc6edcd748a2b5b70a83bd
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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