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“Bad in the best, though excellent in neither.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Passionate Pilgrim. iii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f7f6d29cb24e9abb7a0c2c428a0bea93c677444be5eb9ec539225b1b731741b0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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