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“The first who was king was a fortunate soldier: Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Merope. Act i. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cba0c0dacc857e32211e603da6a3e2c3c052f0914fa9052939ca723ee70e62de
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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