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“Not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2f0067481ef126aaf20a2c8e555a8d35a6099db386da01d680f0d71fa978d06a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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