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“Cato said, "I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is."”
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- Source:
- Political Precepts.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 20a1904543d018096e371ef587375c995a762b810e52328d1329ec8cea355cc5
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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