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“The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.”
Provenance
- Source:
- On Warren Hastings. 1841.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 08f76d44c1f05be8113902c1f069ba6f0fba61dae4fcbc6bc5f174a494f2e6d0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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