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“What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.”
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- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a8c77c05974806ce4ea3c7cd27284a960aec7f1986615f3ba00f7415a875a0e4
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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