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“Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do ingloriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple: who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?”
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- Source:
- Areopagitica.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ee9f27fcb5b68e977a005666682aae47f2f3c84476aff7a98c76502bd5b749c9
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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