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“Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, And almost every vice,--almighty gold.”
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- quote
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- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 29294d853b97d7457f491ecbd2c86a8b2873d751bd2e2e52f07feb246792e990
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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