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“One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Death. Line 154.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 19896c5b9e4e727d9e37111c82b935349a5958427b8060b2ff275e8cf8fd5d9b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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