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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I believe Booth got it from a play, so unrelated. But it was probably a more popular phrase before Booth used it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I believe its from the play Caesar by Shakespeare