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“There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Book iii. Chap. ix. Of Vanity.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f9c94b0b921d05ff6ac25de464b40aab9828a1c2d07f25c413cc9a6ff43b09c0
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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