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"Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph."
Robert Emmet / Speech on his Trial and Conviction for High Treason, September, 1803.
Speech on his Trial and Conviction for High Treason, September, 1803.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain