Word: scot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...level with his brothers who spread a veil before the glaring light of truth for fear of injury to their eyes. The person who tells the truth to the Faculty suffers yet another moral injury, for, seeing himself suffering for the same thing for which others escape scot-free, he loses his sense of immutable justice, and regards himself as a wronged person, which state, I suppose, no one will deny, is unfavorable to good morals...