I used to do, for laughs, an exaggerated impersonation of Marlon Brando, as the sort of street-tough he plays in On the Waterfront, uttering the immortal words of the Bard:
When that the poor hath cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Yet Brutus says that Caesar was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man.
It was an eas…
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