“Is there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,
Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man
Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?”

—  Joseph Addison , book Cato

Act I, scene i.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)

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