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“The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Church Porch.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4c14ff1461d78f53727afb0578ef59f28a69f82ae69a5e0190750d40350d121b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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