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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 1871 |
| AUTHOR: | John Gay (1685–1732) |
| QUOTATION: | No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who’ve no retreat. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | JOHN GAY, “We’ve Cheated the Parson” (song), Polly: an Opera, air 46, act II, scene x, The Poetical Works of John Gay, ed. John Underhill, vol. 2, p. 336 (1893). |
| SUBJECTS: | Victory |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia |
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