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“Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.”
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- Source:
- OEnone.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d24f7592124748061f575e3af658400a100e1a9a09c6ef79a0cce9a1a52291c3
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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