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“Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, but left the shield.”
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- quote
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- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- de332b71c6a69a6a3e66246d845f428c06a51f542f06ddfb2ee913be4656419e
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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