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“To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?”
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- quote
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- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- fdb42ae881aac3a7eff8c0018e146167714267a8c87249b976bcd20c6ec83cc8
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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