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“The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 32b678c3d61e3e3166aef791ac3641b60fa96a5c816bf0e25a7110d91fb32306
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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