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"text": "a stinging satire of American politics.",
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"ref": "1898, George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra",
"text": "CAESAR. No, by the gods! would that it had been! Vengeance at least is human. No, I say: those severed right hands, and the brave Vercingetorix basely strangled in a vault beneath the Capitol, were (with shuddering satire) a wise severity, a necessary protection to the commonwealth, a duty of statesmanship—follies and fictions ten times bloodier than honest vengeance!",
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"Severity of remark."
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