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The character Stockmann in the play "An Enemy of the People" by Ibsen. I can't give a more exact reference because the only place I found it was in a snippet from a book about drama that showed up in a Google search. The snippet had several different names of characters, which was enough to track down "An Enemy of the People" but not the act and scene.
**Added later:
I've checked the Project Gutenberg text at http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/ae... and it's clear that your line is from not only a different translation but from an entirely different revision of the play. I can match the Google snippet with some dialogue immediately following Petra's entrance in Act I, but that part of Stockmann's line is completely missing. He just says, "Well, come and enjoy yourself too!" which is given in the snippet as "Well, you come and be a lizard too. (To company.) I look at her and I say to
myself—how did I do it!" (The "lizard" reference is to Petra's previous line, where she says, "Here you are lying around like lizards while I'm out slaving." The Project Gutenberg edition doesn't mention lizards. It's just "you have all been sitting here enjoying yourselves," which explains the difference in Stockmann's response in that version.)
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