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“A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause?”
Provenance
- Source:
- Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- af425886cabf9787aa113cfa2ea0c4582827594810bef1afb8e47ead7fbc790a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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