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You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.
You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.
Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- Sydney Smith
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- Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 261.
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