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“Fools make a mock at sin.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6b3ca18f5b37e27cc8a58d3ee7eeb56d5218f364352e482d297c87fc3c891376
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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