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“Well, honour is the subject of my story. I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 426edf6b7f359928a917ba3364e9938cd0c9b1d7c1296de71e63ac793444ffa8
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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