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[O]ver the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we kno...

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I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn ...

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Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there m...

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The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it...

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What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or a...

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Looking at him she felt she knew what the people of antiquity had been like. Thirty centuries or mor...

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Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight so...

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Ben JonsonThe Works of Ben Jonson: With critical and explanatory notes and a memoir by William Gifford. Volume 2