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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 5667 |
| AUTHOR: | George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| QUOTATION: | “While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls—the world.” 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 145. |
| Note 1. Literally the exclamation of the pilgrims in the eighth century. [back] |
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