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

4368 Oliver Goldsmith 1730?-1774 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:4368
AUTHOR:Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
QUOTATION:For he who fights and runs away
May live to fight another day;
But he who is in battle slain
Can never rise and fight again. 1
ATTRIBUTION:The Art of Poetry on a New Plan (1761). Vol. ii. p. 147.
 
Note 1.
See Butler, Quotation 68. [back]
 


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