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“The better day, the worse deed.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Commentaries. Genesis iii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d6d67014075c2ce4888949420686faf50b09bfbd508e177d6123abf95bc1dcd7
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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