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“There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.”
Provenance
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ed2910033135ba319cfc82b8bdb4412b3162a8726c107bd34b117c5b41f74bef
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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