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But whether on the scaffold high
Or in the battle's van,
The fittest place where man can die
Is where he dies for man!
--
The Dublin Nation, Sept. 28, 1844, Vol. ii. p. 809, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 

Michael Joseph Barry

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