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“His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Retaliation. Line 46.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8c59bc7e3539b384b58468a8a06383f86a555e79b5cb5fc5704a7d0daed13a1e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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