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“The Devil was sick,--the Devil a monk would be; The Devil was well,--the devil a monk was he.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Works. Book iv. Chap. xxiv.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b52f6cef42b2ea92afc69f531b3e9d563f6083b71fb0607354c67a289638be18
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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