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“The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.”
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- Source:
- Ugly Trades.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e5fd7172bd95820d7f44ff0910f17978d72c098f477875baed4c8539f4fb3385
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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