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In the appendix to Croker's Boswell's Johnson one finds this anecdote:

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Cato's Soliloquy. -- One day Mrs. Gastrel set a little girl to repeat to him (Dr. Samuel Johnson) Cato's Soliloquy, which she went through very correctly. The Doctor, after a pause, asked the child:

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"What was to bring Cato to an end?"

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She said it was a knife.

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"No, my dear, it was not so."

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"My aunt Polly said it was a knife."

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"Why, Aunt Polly's knife may do, but it was a dagger, my dear."

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