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“When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Cato. Act iv. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 42a4cc564cbbca238f450c6e925c8a5c1e1d8763cf544b93ee6d2c4183453387
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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