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What is the origin of the expression "I'm the culture they're dying for"?
The earliest form of the quotation seems to be:
I am the civilisation you are fighting for.
It has been attributed variously to Lytton Strachey, to George Bernard Shaw, to the classical scholar H.W. ...
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