William Croswell Doane (1832–1913) American bishop
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 109.
“God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.”
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Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
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