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      "text": "A person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between. This is a sharp time, now, a precise time — we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world.",
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      "text": "Hale: There is a prodigious fear of this court in the country —\n\nDanforth: Then there is a prodigious guilt in the country. Are you afraid to be questioned here?\n\nHale: I may only fear the Lord, sir, but there is fear in the country nevertheless.\n\nDanforth: Reproach me not with the fear in the country; there is fear in the country because there is a moving plot to topple Christ in the country!\n\nHale: But it does not follow that everyone accused is part of it.\n\nDanforth: No uncorrupted man may fear this court, Mr. Hale!",
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      "text": "It is mistaken law that leads you to sacrifice. Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. I beg you, woman, prevail upon your husband to confess. Let him give his lie. Quail not before God's judgment in this, for it may well be God damns a liar less than he that throws his life away for pride.",
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      "text": "Danforth: Do you mean to deny this confession when you are free?\n\nProctor: I mean to deny nothing!\n\nDanforth: Then explain to me, Mr. Proctor, why you will not let —\n\nProctor: [With the cry of his whole soul] Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!",
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      "text": "Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God's fingers? I'll tell you what's walking Salem — vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! This warrant's vengeance! I'll not give my wife to vengeance!",
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