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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued)
 
1321
    Great Cæsar fell.
O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!
Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,
Whilst bloody treason flourish’d over us.
          Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.
1322
    What private griefs they have, alas, I know not.
          Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.
1323
    I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts:
I am no orator, as Brutus is;
But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man.
          Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.
1324
    I only speak right on.
          Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.
1325
    Put a tongue
In every wound of Cæsar that should move
The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
          Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.
1326
    When love begins to sicken and decay,
It useth an enforced ceremony.
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.
          Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 2.
1327
    You yourself
Are much condemn’d to have an itching palm.
          Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.
1328
    The foremost man of all this world.
          Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.
1329
    I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,
Than such a Roman.
          Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.
1330
    I said, an elder soldier, not a better:
Did I say “better”?
          Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.
1331
    There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats,
For I am arm’d so strong in honesty
That they pass by me as the idle wind,
Which I respect not.
          Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.
1332
    Should I have answer’d Caius Cassius so?
When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous,
To lock such rascal counters from his friends,
Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts:
Dash him to pieces!
          Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.
1333
    A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities,
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
          Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.