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“Might have gone further and have fared worse.”
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- Source:
- Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. iv.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 066fa8584beb472f1ea10b68fad8e2ef197a666a4ff9985f6bb18b0f2995499b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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