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“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
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- Book
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- 2026-07-04
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- 3ca364c19e211fda86ac3fe56ebc1f83685228d1d57587d53b54f3d51f922fbc
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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