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“When God is planning ruin for a man, He first deprives him of his reason.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Source:
- Frag. 379.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 81d847e4e8408411682563e86f16c8d17d61901015cfdd586d9dfcba79f7f71c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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