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“Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Richelieu. Act ii. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a64fc6730b87fa60b99e32133514579f1c12022401cc6f9ce9f211fd64e12561
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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