“Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty.”
Joseph Addison book Cato
Act IV, scene iv.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
“Thank God, I have done my duty.”
Statement among his final dying words. [citation needed]
The Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
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