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“One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d7d791cfaa610d3650d8bcf7234536514d5a0a96c8ce1d5497ccb944bad47537
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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