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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears

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  1. From the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, the first line of a speech in which Mark Antony addresses the crowd at Caesar's funeral.


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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: They have come to resurrect Caesar.

From Washington Post Sep. 7, 2022

Antony in “Julius Caesar”: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.

From Washington Post Apr. 16, 2020

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears, I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

From Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One by Margot Asquith

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears, or if not ears, pots.

From The Wouldbegoods by E. (Edith) Nesbit

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