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“Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Coriolanus. Act i. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 73809859f0a13f654858a333ee3e7a2d4f06bc14db1a0b83096758e2a155d207
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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