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“A guilty conscience never feels secure.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 617.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a33021570e04657272bf0587ccdbc6f3a90b4933e77badf80b8fc1492d84e4e2
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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