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The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold men who in their inmost souls are true and honest men who do not fear to call sin by its right name men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold men who in their inmost souls are true and honest men who do not fear to call sin by its right name men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
Approximate author period: c. 1871 AD · industrial
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- Ellen G. White
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- Approximate author period: c. 1871 AD · industrial
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Ellen G. White, based on documented lifetime 1827 to 1915. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q292290 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q292290 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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