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Anaxagʹoras, on his death-bed, being asked what honour should be conferred upon him, replied, “Give the boys a holiday.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.