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“Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Hercules Furens. 255.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bfd8b66ce817ac93b1079e7069c16689df52d015ef0b2b91226ffb7e1c5ec149
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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