Greek Loan Words

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    “The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that he in some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “... the ... thing I am proudest of in my whole business life is that I do not take, that I never took in all my life, and never, never! will take, one single penny more than 6% on any loan or any contract.”
    —Hetty Green (1834–1916)

    “Man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Deuteronomy, 8:3.

    Jesus recalls these words in Matthew 4:4.