"at bottom" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1705, Daniel Defoe, The Consolidator: or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions From the World in the Moon",
          "text": "They concerted Matters, and all at once fell to selling off their Stock, giving out daily Reports that they would be no longer concern'd, that it was a losing Trade, that the Fund at bottom was good for nothing.",
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          "ref": "1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 16, in Treasure Island",
          "text": "I know you are a good man at bottom.",
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          "ref": "1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 45",
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