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“And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a63c3af8cc2d540275eb6e623e5403f72a586096becf9de620aea1fcffc1cfad
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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