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"But whether on the scaffold high Or in the battle's van, The fittest place where man can die Is where he dies for man!"
Michael J. Barry / The Dublin Nation, Sept. 28, 1844, Vol. ii. p. 809.
The Dublin Nation, Sept. 28, 1844, Vol. ii. p. 809.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain