Source: A Million Little Pieces
“Habit with him was all the test of truth,
It must be right: I’ve done it from my youth.”
The Borough (1810), Letter iii, "The Vicar", line 138.
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It must be right: I’ve done it from my youth." by George Crabbe?
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