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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—W

Worse than a Crime

It was worse than a crime, it was a blunder. Said by Talleyrand of the murder of the Due d'Enghien by Napoleon I.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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