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“Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d7516400b527b1015bef5c6967c67b0fe3fe281e8fb710c02c6a9bc25ad810e6
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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