“Do not let the bastards grind you down.”

Variant: Do not let the bastards grind you down.
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 9 (p. 52)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale

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Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

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Canadian writer 1939

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