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“Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 21e92751910848de5e9959cbe3dbdefedd5ed08bc8b71d9dd132013629372560
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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