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“Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.”
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- Source:
- The Present Crisis.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- ab2512ecabd680db4178890cf34b350aa7035372934d814304684e0f558b4b79
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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