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“A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Cato. Act ii. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8d355f69487ec07fcaad93d1f50f8b19a4c6c5b149066a812db2eaac0d5e13ba
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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