Alexandrian Rules

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“This is not yet an Alexandrian feast.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rules of reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)