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“A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Meditations. ix. 5.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c7d9d11b263ac8deac73c2772d4fd0b32ef3a85ae1b25a3cfd40f5ef81cf2ca9
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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