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“Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5c1da845eb59256f35cc4ddcf241e93e1ba8e8b3ae3cb4f10edfeed6826b07c3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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