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“The gladsome light of jurisprudence.”
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- Source:
- First Institute.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ef81d03ed7c0311a7de924cce0bbac4a869db793252757603b5b3e0afda4f7c4
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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