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“You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave,-- Think ye he meant them for a slave?”
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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