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We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks

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There is a word Kristos in the Greek dictionary, and this word is supposed to be borrowed from the Sanskrit word "Krishna," and Christ is derived from Kristos.

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Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.

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I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak!

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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

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Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

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Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.

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I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.

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It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.

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Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.

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I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

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The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

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SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.

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According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

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It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.

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I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

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