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“White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so: Life's business being just the terrible choice.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9c640acbaf504085f7f2a672996e33eac8ba7018169227a0420f3243ffdcf9fa
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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