/ · 1894 Brewer’s · W · We Left Our Country for Our Country’s Good
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We are transported convicts. The line occurs in a prologue written by George Barrington (a notorious pickpocket) for the opening of the first playhouse at Sydney, in Australia, 16th January, 1796.
“True patriots we, for be it understood,
We left our country for our country’s good.”
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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.
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