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Brutus had rather be a villager
Than to repute himself a son of Rome
Under these hard conditions as this time
Is like to lay upon us.
- William Shakespeare
Attribution: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Brutus, in Julius Caesar, act 1, sc. 2, l. 172-5.

Categories: Dramatist, Politics, Rome, Tyranny

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