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“As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?”
Provenance
- Source:
- M^cFingal. Canto ii. Line 121.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3eae619ab1aeeb4190cadf6eb6690ed29d570bc89a3423dc8148cf47e7c765b0
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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