| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 7522 |
| AUTHOR: | George William Curtis (18241892) |
| QUOTATION: | Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Call of Freedom. |
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