Ancient Sea Kings

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“With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.”
—Bible: Hebrew Job, 12:12.

“Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentiment in mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Grammar, which rules even kings ...”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)