Fun with phrases: "for all the wrong reasons"

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The Atlantic Monthly, May 1919, p.600:

[Begin]
But that does not
rankle much: it is only what you would
have expected, and it never cut much
ice. Young America was pretty much
pro-Boer in 1900, I remember - - for all
the wrong reasons.
[End]

https://archive.org/details/atlantic123bostuoft
https://archive.org/stream/atlantic123bostuoft#page/600/mode/1up

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Possible 1906, The Bands of Orion by Caroline Grosvenor:

[Begin]
Well, first of all, she said she must tell me how she delighted in my books. She liked all the worst ones best, and for all the wrong reasons ; but I told her she was perfectly right, and that it was seldom one found such discriminating readers.
[End]

Google Books snippet:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tQ9NAAAAYAAJ&q=%22for+all+the+wrong+reasons%22&dq=%22for+all+the+wrong+reasons%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8zhuUpS8EIn74QTm54GYDA&redir_esc=y

HathiTrust search result only:
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/search?id=uva.x004256256;view=1up;seq=7;q1=%22for%20all%20the%20wrong%20reasons%22;start=1;size=10;page=search;orient=0

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