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True patriots all; for be it understood We left our country for our country's good.

True patriots all; for be it understood We left our country for our country's good.

Approximate author period: c. 1755 AD · early modern

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George Barrington
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Approximate author period: c. 1755 AD · early modern
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Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)

Prologue written for the Opening of the Play-house at New South Wales, Jan. 16, 1796.

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