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“For the good that I would I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 125591b48e577ead950310f5c7363695f713adad3edb40de0387bec4c3a583f3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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