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“Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,--the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Rob Roy's Grave.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0a1f38f56cfe5cd329dd8e79ad799c6d8eaf098b51c2f46bbe38eb6ee1a2cbc4
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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