Greek City States

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“In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.”
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“No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.”
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“My opinion is that the Northern states will manage somehow to muddle through.”
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