Ask not for whom the bell tolls

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A famous phrase from John Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624), later used by Ernest Hemingway as the title of his 1940 novel 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Frasier paraphrases it as 'Ask not for whom the doorman buzzes.'

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Mentioned once in Something Borrowed, Someone Blue [1].

Something Borrowed, Someone Blue [1]

Season 7 · Episode 23 · S07E23

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“Ask not for whom the doorman buzzes...”
— Frasier

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