Quote#Friendship
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
Quote byWilliam Shakespeare · 1564–1616
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Julius Caesar (1599), Antony, Act III, scene ii..
English (original)
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.
— William Shakespeare
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