Famous quotes containing the words young, male and/or slave:
“The first wrote, Wine is the strongest. The second wrote, The king is strongest. The third wrote, Women are strongest: but above all things Truth beareth away the victory.”
—Apocrypha. 1 Esdras, 3:10-12.
Referring to three young men of the bodyguard of Darius, king of the Persians, competing for his favor.
“Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.”
—James Thurber (18941961)
“The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
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