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Aristophanes quote: "It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn..."

It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls

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The very instant I saw you, did. My heart fly to your service; there resides. To make me slave to it....mine unworthiness, that dare not offer. What I desire to give, and much less take. What I shall die to want. William Shakespeare
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