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“That is a true proverb which is wont to be commonly quoted, that "all had rather it were well for themselves than for another."”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 520265854febbace2fb0aeddeb654cf1419dc3e9b0239d639b7df0ec86e7d12d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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