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“Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,-- "'T is man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die."”
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- Source:
- Sacrifice.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- dfebecacb8f429507980b97649a622023d6e1e43ecc0cd18b1b7ee54932d43b1
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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