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“It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Life of Marcus Cato.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 62f0802c76e403a09f8c36771de020dce37c3a527287e2d0d6ae525703e8ff94
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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