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“Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 47bb74882c878ebbcef62d30f28e8d89db7617579985fe0993ca645b8a5c3132
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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