Julius Caesar

Text of the day: “Domestic fury and fierce civil strife/ Shall cumber all the parts of Italy./ Blood and destruction shall be so in use,/ And dreadful objects so familiar,/ That mothers shall but smile when they behold/ Their infants quartered with the hands of war,/ All pity choked with custom of fell deeds,/ And Caesar’s spirit, ranging for revenge,/ With Ate by his side come hot from hell,/ Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice/ Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war,/ That this foul deed shall smell above the earth/ With carrion men, groaning for burial.” (Mark Antony in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar)

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