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“Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.”
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- Source:
- Chapter 4 (Sandhurst), p. 72.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 991bf76d2c1047194bd7fdf5bccd8eedf5cecf3f4be62a2de4597033aa8df57f
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