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

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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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Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

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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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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

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I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

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

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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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Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.

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We forget how the Greeks and Romans prevailed magnificently in a barbaric world and how that triumph ended-how a slackness and softness finally overcame them to their ruin. In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security and a comfortable life; and they lost all-comfort and security and freedom.

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

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How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

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

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

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

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The Greek people are entrepreneurial.

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