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If I go out of public life with one feeling, with one conviction, it is this : a deep regret for many bitter words I have used in my life, deep sincere repentance for my violence of language. But I hope they will be forgiven me by God and man, because not once in all my life have I attacked anybody unjustly from my point of view, and without believing it was my duty to do so.
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Henri Bourassa, Fiery Politician, Dies, The Globe and Mail, September 1, 1952, page A1

 

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