Earl Ellis

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“The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet to its god of art. Latin is the embodiment of the weighty and concentrated speech which is hammered and pressed and polished into the shape of its perfection, as the ethically minded Romans believed that the soul also should be wrought.”
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)