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“Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.”
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- quote
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- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- d56fd17142834fecb2ebe8c29c26fef0562446c879dba912414bef02448cef6d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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