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“For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Life of Cæsar.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5b9c2c8e260fcbe7785e6fa285c1790442bc81836d1b3eca3e7d78716413e18c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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