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“No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Jacula Prudentum.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a85406c59f66d167fe09976dcad51baac1042d177de8d3740e0b2c92995900e1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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