Ancient Greeks

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    Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.
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    “The Greeks used to say,” he said bitterly, using a phrase that had been a long time on his mind, “that when a man became a slave, on the first day he lost one-half of his virtue.”
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