"The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths."
-Gilbert Murray
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"The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.“
-Gilbert Murray
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