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“These things are not for the best, nor as I think they ought to be; but still they are better than that which is downright bad.”
Provenance
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3289a347b57ec5c11ef45ceb522d3ef208995feca290a91cb5910fcaac13b93a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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