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“No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.”
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- Source:
- Of Truth.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c44513bf1d8ae049c69d0d69a52b632ce27760e5f70756ece7f529db8f95bbf5
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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