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“In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b5c75090ac6163b7069fd8c5c4c0209fcbb34e7e133c735d8815a8035c773072
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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