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“You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Alaric the Visigoth.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5ebd809c41b23a2ab1b158baac455fe84d954bb92fe779ee54552141337344aa
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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