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“Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”
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- Speech
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- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- b16d23b4af97b7adf23057eb096d3a4327c1283d8199b3591ddcac3489117ee3
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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