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“How forcible are right words!”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- eb532c94d59d818f49bc14b7925d90f621d4393221af1d0008742356f8280e0d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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