“And with Cæsar to take in his hand the army, the empire, and Cleopatra, and say, "All these will I relinquish if you will show me the fountain of the Nile."”
New England Reformers
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series
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