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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

4437 Edmund Burke 1729-1797 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:4437
AUTHOR:Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
QUOTATION:I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Letter to Matthew Smith.
 
Note 1.
Family vault of “all the Capulets.”—Reflections on the Revolution in France, vol. iii. p. 349. [back]