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“My vigour relents,--I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.”
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- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3869331ee746ea5535d3519e770ce0c6a99e01dbc9389724357f37317ac345fa
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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