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“In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.”
Provenance
- Source:
- On Frederic the Great. 1842.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 273f807ee4e055843306df06815f20bbcfa0be6872a4802f997939a2a7e35342
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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