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“They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 08b50994df20f630353acdc9659635552edfe4b17f0a9eb5422b3cb1c0fd565a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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