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“The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Fasti. iv. 311.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d63d5c839a463576893f61b2eea00e6c8ef89d4658657fb95767ac75aadd3986
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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