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“To make a bank was a great plot of state; Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Character of Holland.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5da0e977c8d0ce561da3f77d2309e44a3a5cfd64f4d69125ae1451ed96bf5cb8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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