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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:4368
AUTHOR:Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
QUOTATION:For he who fights and runs away
May live to fight another day;
But he who is in battle slain
Can never rise and fight again. 1
ATTRIBUTION:The Art of Poetry on a New Plan (1761). Vol. ii. p. 147.
 
Note 1.
See Butler, Quotation 68. [back]
 

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