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Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.
Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.
Approximate author period: c. 1847 AD · industrial
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- Wendell Phillips
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- Approximate author period: c. 1847 AD · industrial
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Wendell Phillips. · page_094
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