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“Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 11c0008a6b5db74c0afb57923e1fe52a5d826731f13c76e68fb817597b80f7f7
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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