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“Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 05ee52fd0a9e97130b1852fa615cdc5b6227a1694eba3d42134bc3a84ae43003
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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