Webb Ellis

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    I shall have the veil withdrawn and be allowed to gaze unblinded on the narrow limits of my own possibilities.
    —Beatrice Potter Webb (1858–1943)

    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)