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“Principle is ever my motto, not expediency.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Sybil. Book ii. Chap. ii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1f1a321bbd542a2efb5ee72599a9c501d67461ea407bfc29676c2d89208078ba
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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