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“Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger at his death.”
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- Book
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- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- d9473707e4f2dc348621bab9ba2f83d261bf6e075640a7d7a0bc1cb13305ff9a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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