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“If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“I know an Englishman,
Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.”
—George Chapman c. 15591634, British dramatist, poet, translator. repr. In Plays and Poems of George Chapman: The Tragedies, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (1910)
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