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No pent-up Utica contracts your powers,
But the whole boundless continent is yours.
--
Epilogue to Cato, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Written for the Bow Street Theatre, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

 

Jonathan M. Sewall

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Christopher Hitchens

 

I too
Will go, remembering what I said to you,
When any land, the first to which we came
Seemed that we sought, and set your hearts aflame,
And all seemed won to you: but still I think,
Perchance years hence, the fount of life to drink,
Unless by some ill chance I first am slain.
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