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“For truth is precious and divine,-- Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.”
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- Book
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- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 6b1bb33c7078ca3fc5fda6a3f12f16b68f4eb91f954e1de615d5954a3c959dcf
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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