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“Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the children of the light.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 96bf78dc541097137bc9e2c0916a11c5c8d48e28a54f1fd04bbb687f56488a45
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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