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ОглавлениеAnd every shrewd turn was exalted among Men … and simple goodness, wherein nobility doth ever most participate, was mocked away and clean vanished.
THUCYDIDES
Now live the lesser, as lords of the world, The busy troublers. Banished is our glory, The earth’s excellence grows old and sere.
ANON
The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilisation and philosophy has painfully struggled up.
SHAW