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“A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 87cdc165477a49557406326ca34b646e0b344d9cde61ac0b9d7852da2a56c02a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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