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“Take away the sword; States can be saved without it.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Richelieu. Act ii. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 20276bfcc6d878bc6dafa17cc56fb43b99f1f28fad2b44cd75c60c57e04bfdf9
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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