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“Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.”
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- Source:
- Tetrachordon.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 87e5a8ef6f67ae059cfbc50300101c8e7d57e04a44e7ee5bc4e07f938f9a008d
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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