"needs must" meaning in All languages combined

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      "form": "needs must",
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        {
          "ref": "1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 564",
          "text": "Then I walked about, till I found on the further side, a great river of sweet water, running with a strong current; whereupon I called to mind the boat-raft I had made aforetime and said to myself, \"Needs must I make another; haply I may free me from this strait. If I escape, I have my desire and I vow to Allah Almighty to forswear travel; and if I perish I shall be at peace and shall rest from toil and moil.\"",
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        "Alternative form of must needs."
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        {
          "word": "needs must when the devil drives"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1905, The Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, page 199",
          "text": "“Needs must,” and the haughty summons of Britain rings even in the impregnable heart of Thibet. This is the mission of Empire, the will of a dominant people bent on advancing the interests of trade.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Jill Laurimore, Going to Pot, Macmillan, page 155",
          "text": "\"Needs must and all that – and the devil so often does, doesn't he?\" “Excuse me?\" \"Drives – the devil. Such a relentless old bugger.\"",
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        "Short for needs must when the devil drives."
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          "text": "Then I walked about, till I found on the further side, a great river of sweet water, running with a strong current; whereupon I called to mind the boat-raft I had made aforetime and said to myself, \"Needs must I make another; haply I may free me from this strait. If I escape, I have my desire and I vow to Allah Almighty to forswear travel; and if I perish I shall be at peace and shall rest from toil and moil.\"",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Jill Laurimore, Going to Pot, Macmillan, page 155",
          "text": "\"Needs must and all that – and the devil so often does, doesn't he?\" “Excuse me?\" \"Drives – the devil. Such a relentless old bugger.\"",
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        }
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