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“There is a method in man's wickedness,-- It grows up by degrees.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 13aff0abfd2b2fc6d375ca9d4262e336e2ea6dced96189b2bd7896181930d77d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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