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“I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 05bbe1ff8cbfbbb33164e7cbadc27d8ec628e5b83bbc6ed151e0ce10ea857180
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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