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“What a pity is it That we can die but once to save our country!”
Provenance
- Source:
- Cato. Act iv. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0757ad74cc323ed3d76e8e5a99e8749818499416cdaef447b97db8c15b180006
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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