| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 11094 |
| QUOTATION: | I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Marcus Porcius Cato The Elder (234149 B.C.), Roman statesman. quoted in Parallel Lives, Marcus Cato, ch. 19, sct. 4, Plutarch. |
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