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“Necessity knows no law except to conquer.”
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- Source:
- Maxim 553.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5ec8b0354889dd418f3263baeb5d84281529794f2af26ef254e0d3722daa9a64
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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