“No pent-up Utica contracts your powers,
But the whole boundless continent is yours.”

Epilogue to Cato, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Written for the Bow Street Theatre, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

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