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“Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 180.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6e25ed154f2a9bf6b943b3e86e71d08668aa302a5405a74c93878c49b3932ff1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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