Ancient Greek World

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    “Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
    —Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)

    “It takes place ... always without permanent form, though ancient and familiar as the sun and moon, and as sure to come again.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you cd. do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint cd. think he understood.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “A poet would a-wishing go,
    And he wished love were thus and so.
    “If but it were,” he said, said he,
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    This world were good enough for me.””
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)