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“Necessity has no law.”
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- Source:
- Works. Book v. Chapter xv.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4170407ebe404e7632cf06e345e82ec79b1c08304a9f49f893bf57c36f7a0b17
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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