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“A precedent embalms a principle.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Speech, Feb. 22, 1848.
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d4f89ab6d5f2ed53dc8f7acd259e80a4372b6a9503b9aa275fa5e9b1cea0366c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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