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		<title>Billings, Josh -- Josh Billings&#8217; Farmer&#8217;s Allminax, 1879-09 &#8220;Questions, And Answers&#8221; (1879 ed.)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Experience iz the science ov finding out how deep a mill pond iz, by wading into it, and drowning.</p>
<p>[Experience is the science of finding out how deep a mill pond is, by wading into it, and drowning.]</p>
<br><b>Josh Billings</b> (1818–1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]<br><i>Josh Billings&#8217; Farmer&#8217;s Allminax</i>, 1879-09 &#8220;Questions, And Answers&#8221; (1879 ed.) 
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		<title>Hemingway, Ernest -- Essay (1935-09), &#8220;Notes on the Next War,&#8221; Esquire, Vol. 4, No. 3</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it, and the idiotic way they run it when they get it, so that an honest man will distrust it as he would a racket and refuse to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it, and the idiotic way they run it when they get it, so that an honest man will distrust it as he would a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.</p>
<br><b>Ernest Hemingway</b> (1899–1961) American writer<br>Essay (1935-09), &#8220;Notes on the Next War,&#8221; <i>Esquire</i>, Vol. 4, No. 3 
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		<title>Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 4, ch.  9 (4.9) / sec. 21 (4.21) (45 BC) [tr. Main (1824)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARCUS: Anger is a lust of punishing any one we imagine has injured us without cause. Heat is anger just forming and beginning to exist, which the Greeks call θυμωσις. Hatred is settled anger. Enmity is anger waiting for an opportunity of revenge. Discord is a sharper anger conceived deep in the mind and heart. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="hangingindent">MARCUS: Anger is a lust of punishing any one we imagine has injured us without cause. Heat is anger just forming and beginning to exist, which the Greeks call θυμωσις. Hatred is settled anger. Enmity is anger waiting for an opportunity of revenge. Discord is a sharper anger conceived deep in the mind and heart. </p>
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<p><em>[Ira sit libido poeniendi eius qui videatur laesisse iniuria, excandescentia autem sit ira nascens et modo existens, quae θύμωσις Graece dicitur, odium ira inveterata, inimicitia ira ulciscendi tempus observans, discordia ira acerbior intimo animo et corde concepta.]</em></p>
<br><b>Marcus Tullius Cicero</b> (106–43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher<br><i>Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes]</i>, Book 4, ch.  9 (4.9) / sec. 21 (4.21) (45 BC) [tr. Main (1824)] 
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Describing a Stoic definition of emotions (probably from Chrysippus); anger being seen as a subset of lust or eager desire. <br><br>

(<a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0044%3Abook%3D4%3Asection%3D21#:~:text=ira%20sit%20libido%20poeniendi1%20eius%20qui%20videatur%20laesisse%20iniuria%2C%20excandescentia%20autem%20sit%20ira%20nascens%20et%20modo2%20existens%2C34%20quae%20%CE%B8%CF%8D%CE%BC%CF%89%CF%83%CE%B9%CF%82%20Graece%20dicitur%2C%20odium5%20ira%20inveterata%2C%20inimicitia%20ira%20ulciscendi%20tempus%20observans%2C%20discordia%20ira%20acerbior%20intimo%20animo6%20et%20corde%20concepta">Source (Latin)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>Anger is a Lust of punishing him who appears to have injur'd us. Wrath is Anger breaking forth, and newly arisen which is in Greek call'd Heat. Hatred is an inveterate Anger. Enmity, an Anger watching the time of taking Revenge. Heart-burning is a deadly feud conceiv'd with inward rancor of Spirit. <br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A33161.0001.001/1:6.9?rgn=div2;view=fulltext#:~:text=Anger%20is%20a%20Lust%20of%20punishing%20him%20who%20appears%20to%20have%20injur%27d%20us">Wase</a> (1643)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Anger is the lust of punishing the author of injury which appears unprovoked: Resentment is kindling anger, and of recent growth; which the Greeks call θυμωσις: Hatred, inveterate anger: Enmity, anger watching its time for revenge: Discord, a more bitter anger, a hatred that is profound, and fills the whole heart.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044085192730&view=1up&seq=213&q1=enmity">Otis</a> (1839)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Anger is a lust of punishing any one who, as we imagine, has injured us without cause. Heat is anger just forming and beginning to exist, which the Greeks call θύμωσις. Hatred is a settled anger. Enmity is anger waiting for an opportunity of revenge. Discord is a sharper anger conceived deeply in the mind and heart.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29247/29247-h/29247-h.html#toc31:~:text=Anger%20is%20a,mind%20and%20heart.">Yonge</a> (1853)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Anger is the desire to punish one who, we think, has wrongfully done us harm. Irritability is anger nascent and just beginning to be, — called in Greek θυμωσις. Hatred is an anger that has become chronic. Enmity is anger on the watch for the opportunity of revenge. Discord is a more bitter anger conceived of hatred in the inmost heart.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/cicerostusculand00ciceiala/page/208/mode/2up?q=%22enmity+is+anger%22">Peabody</a> (1886)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Anger is the desire of punishing the man who seems to have injured you. [...]<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cicero/b2NoAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22ira%20puniendi%22">Taylor/Hunt</a> (1916)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Anger is "desire to punish a person who is thought to have harmed one unjustly." Heatedness is "anger at its inception, when it has just come to be; in Greek it is called <i>thumōsis.</i> Hatred is "inveterate anger." Rancor is "anger biding its time for revenge." Soreness of heart is "a more bitter anger which has its birth in the depth of mind and heart."<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cicero_on_the_Emotions/jdQmgz2M9OMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22desire%20to%20punish%22">Graver</a> (2002)]</blockquote><br>

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		<title>Franklin, Benjamin -- Poor Richard Improved (1749 ed.)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The wise Man draws more Advantage from his Enemies, than the Fool from his Friends.</p>
<br><b>Benjamin Franklin</b> (1706–1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist<br><i>Poor Richard Improved</i> (1749 ed.) 
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Not original with Franklin. See <a href="https://wist.info/gracian-y-morales-baltasar/5147/">Gracian</a> (1647).						</span>
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		<title>Montaigne, Michel de -- Essays, Book 1, ch. 56 (1.56), &#8220;Of Prayers [Des prieres]&#8221; (1572–1580) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[God&#8217;s justice and His power are inseparable; &#8217;tis in vain we invoke His power in an unjust cause. We are to have our souls pure and clean, at that moment at least wherein we pray to Him, and purified from all vicious passions; otherwise we ourselves present Him the rods wherewith to chastise us; instead [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>God&#8217;s justice and His power are inseparable; &#8217;tis in vain we invoke His power in an unjust cause. We are to have our souls pure and clean, at that moment at least wherein we pray to Him, and purified from all vicious passions; otherwise we ourselves present Him the rods wherewith to chastise us; instead of repairing anything we have done amiss, we double the wickedness and the offence when we offer to Him, to whom we are to sue for pardon, an affection full of irreverence and hatred. Which makes me not very apt to applaud those whom I observe to be so frequent on their knees, if the actions nearest to the prayer do not give me some evidence of amendment and reformation.</p>
<p><em>[Sa justice &#038; sa puissance sont inseparables: Pour neant implorons nous sa force en une mauvaise cause: Il faut avoir l’ame nette, au moins en ce moment, auquel nous le prions, &#038; deschargée de passions vitieuses: autrement nous luy presentons nous mesmes les verges, dequoy nous chastier. Au lieu de rabiller nostre faute, nous la redoublons ; presentans à celuy, à qui nous avons à demander pardon, une affection pleine d’irreverence &#038; de haine. Voyla pourquoy je ne louë pas volontiers ceux, que je voy prier Dieu plus souvent &#038; plus ordinairement, si les actions voisines de la priere, ne me tesmoignent quelque amendement &#038; reformation.]</em></p>
<br><b>Michel de Montaigne</b> (1533–1592) French essayist<br><i>Essays</i>, Book 1, ch. 56 (1.56), &#8220;Of Prayers <i>[Des prieres]</i>&#8221; (1572–1580) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)] 
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This passage was in the 1st (1580) edition.<br><br>

(<a href="https://hyperessays.net/gournay/book/I/chapter/56/#:~:text=Sa%20justice%20%26%20sa,quelque%20amendement%20%26%20reformation.">Source (French)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>His justice and power are inseparable. It is but in vaine to emplore his power in a bad cause. Man must have an unpolluted soule when he praieth (at least in that moment he addresseth himselfe to pray) and absolutely free from all vicious passions; otherwise we our selves present him the roddes to scourge us withall. In liew of redressing our fault, we redouble the same, by presenting him with an affection fraught with irreverence, sinne, and hatred, to whom onely we should sue for grace and forgivenesse. Loe-heere, why I doe not willingly commend those Pharisaicall humours, whom I so often behold, and more then ordinary, to pray unto God, except their actions imediately preceding or succeeding their prayers witnesse some shew of reformation or hope of amendment.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://hyperessays.net/florio/book/I/chapter/56/#:~:text=His%20justice%20and,hope%20of%20amendment.">Florio</a> (1603)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>God's justice, and his power, are inseparable; and therefore in vain we invoke his power in an unjust cause: we are to have our souls pure, at that moment at least, wherein we pray to him, and free from all vicious passions, otherwise we ourselves present him the rods wherewith to chastise us. Instead of repairing any thing we have done amiss, we double the wickedness and the offence, whilst we offer to him, to whom we are to sue for pardon, an address full of irreverence and hatred. Which makes me not very apt to applaud those whom I observe to be so frequent on their knees, if the actions before and after the prayer, do not give me some evidence of reformation and amendment.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/essaysmichaelde01montgoog/page/414/mode/2up?q=%22God%27s+justice%2C+and%22">Cotton</a> (1686)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>His justice and his power are inseparable. To no purpose do we implore his might in a bad cause. Our souls must be clean -- at all events at the moment when we pray to him -- and free of evil passions; otherwise we ourselves present to him the rods wherewith to chastise us. Instead of redressing our offence, we redouble it, offering to him whose forgiveness we have to ask, a heart full of irreverence and hatred. This is why I do not readily praise those whom I see praying to God most frequently and most commonly, if their actions following the prayer do not witnes to me some amendment and reformation.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Book_I_continued_Book_II/x5vvSyAeA5AC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22his%20justice%20and%20his%20power%22&printsec=frontcover">Ives</a> (1925)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>His justice and his power are inseparable. For naught do we implore his power in an evil cause. We must have our soul clean, at least in that moment in which we pray to him, and rid of vicious passions; otherwise we ourselves present to him the rods with which to chastise us. Instead of redressing our fault, we redouble it when we offer feelings full of irreverence and hatred to him whom we are to ask for pardon. That is why I am not inclined to praise those whom I see praying to God most often and habitually, if the actions surrounding the prayer do not show me evidence of some amendment and reform.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/completeworksofm0000mont/page/230/mode/2up?q=%22his+justice+and+his+power%22">Frame</a> (1943)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>God’s power and his justice are inseparable. If we implore him to use his power in a wicked cause it is of no avail. Our soul must be pure, at least for that instant when we make our prayer, free from  the weight of vicious passions; otherwise we offer him rods for our own chastisement. Instead of amending our faults we redouble them by offering God (from whom we ought to be begging forgiveness) emotions full of irreverence and hatred. That is why I do not approve of those whom I see praying to God frequently and regularly if deeds consonant with their prayers do not bear me witness of some reformation and amendment.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/the-complete-essays-montaigne-michel-de-1533-1592/page/355/mode/2up?q=%22god%27s+power+and%22">Screech</a> (1987)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a shoal of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot &#8230;</p>
<br><b>Douglas Adams</b> (1952–2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter<br>Game (1984), <i>The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy</i>, Infocom [with Steve Meretzky] 
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Text that comes up (sometimes) when the protagonist loses consciousness or is in pitch darkness. When this condition is corrected, the <a href="https://archive.org/stream/InfocomCabinetHitchhikersGuide/Infocom_Cabinet_Hitchhikers_Guide_djvu.txt#:~:text=You%20%20are%20%20disoriented%20%20for%20%20a%20moment.%20%20The%20%20blackness%20%20swims%20%20away%20%20like%20%20a%20shoal%20%0Aof%20%20eels%20%20who%20%20have%20%20just%20%20seen%20%20something%20%20that%20%20eels%20%20like%20%20a%20lot%20%20half%20%20a%20mile%20%20away">counter-message comes up</a>:<br><br>

<blockquote>You  are  disoriented  for  a moment.  The  blackness  swims  away  like  a shoal of  eels  who  have  just  seen  something  that  eels  like  a lot  half  a mile  away ...</blockquote><br>

The text is often misquoted as a "school of eels" (and the date mislabeled as 1985).						</span>
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		<title>Russell, Bertrand -- Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 10 &#8220;Patriotism in Education&#8221; (1932)</title>
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<br><b>Bertrand Russell</b> (1872–1970) English mathematician and philosopher<br><i>Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World]</i>, ch. 10 &#8220;Patriotism in Education&#8221; (1932) 
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Russell offers as examples of the latter, the UK in Persia, the US in Central America, and Japan in Manchuria.


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		<title>~Proverbs and Sayings -- Latin proverb</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel. [Dives aut iniquus est, aut iniqui haeres.] This one has many variants in English, including: &#8220;A rich man is dishonest himself, or at least he succeeds a dishonest predecessor.&#8221;[tr. Donne, Sermon 140 (1620-04-02)] &#8220;Every rich man is either an oppressor himself, or [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.</p>
<p><em>[Dives aut iniquus est, aut iniqui haeres.]</em></p>
<br><b>Proverbs, Sayings, and Adages</b><br>Latin proverb 
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This one has many variants in English, including:<br><br>

<ul>
	<li>"A rich man is dishonest himself, or at least he succeeds a dishonest predecessor."<br>[tr. <a href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/classics/the-works-of-john-donne-vol-5/sermon-cxl.html#:~:text=A%20rich%20man%20is%20dishonest%20himself%2C%20or%20at%20least%20he%20succeeds%20a%20dishonest%20predecessor">Donne</a>, Sermon 140  (1620-04-02)] </li>
	<li>"Every rich man is either an oppressor himself, or the heir of one."<br>[tr. <a href="https://sermonindex.net/books/writings-of-thomas-manton-volume-1/53#:~:text=every%20rich%20man%20is%20either%20an%20oppressor%20himself%2C%20or%20the%20heir%20of%20one">Manton</a> (c. 1660)]</li>
	<li>"A rich man is either a crook or a crook's heir."</li>
	<li>"A rich man is either a knave, or the heir of a knave."</li>
	<li>"A rich man is an unjust man, or the heir of one."</li>
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It was frequently quoted by <a href="https://wist.info/author/jerome-saint/">St. Jerome</a>. See <a href="https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2012/08/mma-potokwane-and-saint-jerome.html" title="Laudator Temporis Acti: Mma Potokwane and Saint Jerome">Laudator Temporis Acti: Mma Potokwane and Saint Jerome</a> for more discussion. 






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		<title>Ivins, Molly -- Essay (2006-03-30), &#8220;Immigration 101 for Beginners and Non-Texans,&#8221; Creators Syndicate column</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Fence will not work. No fence will work. The Great darn Wall of China will not work. Do not build a fence. It will not work. They will come anyway. Over, under, or through. [&#8230;] Anyone who says a fence can fix this problem is a demagogue and an ass.</p>
<br><b>Molly Ivins</b> (1944–2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]<br>Essay (2006-03-30), &#8220;Immigration 101 for Beginners and Non-Texans,&#8221; Creators Syndicate column 
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<a href="https://progressive.org/latest/molly-ivins-memoriam-d2/#:~:text=The%20Fence%20will%20not%20work.%20No%20fence%20will%20work.%20The%20Great%20darn%20Wall%20of%20China%20will%20not%20work.%20Undocumented%20immigrants%20will%20come%20anyway.%20Over%2C%20under%2C%20or%20through.%20Anyone%20who%20says%20a%20fence%20can%20fix%20this%20problem%20is%20a%20demagogue%20and%20an%20ass.">Included</a> in <i>Progressive</i> magazine's memorial article (2007-02) to Ivins, referencing their 2006-06 issue, edited down slightly:<br><br>

<blockquote>The Fence will not work. No fence will work. The Great darn Wall of China will not work. Undocumented immigrants will come anyway. Over, under, or through. Anyone who says a fence can fix this problem is a demagogue and an ass.</blockquote>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="hangingindent">CALVIN: Mom’s not feeling well. So I’m making her a &#8220;Get Well&#8221; card.</p>
<p class="hangingindent">HOBBES: That’s thoughtful of you.</p>
<p class="hangingindent">CALVIN: See, on the front it says, &#8220;Get Well Soon.&#8221; And on the inside it says, &#8220;Because my bed isn’t made, my clothes need to be put away, and I’m hungry. Love, Calvin.&#8221; Want to sign it?</p>
<p class="hangingindent">HOBBES: Sure, I’m hungry too.</p>
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<br><b>Bill Watterson</b> (b. 1958) American cartoonist<br><i>Calvin and Hobbes</i> (1986-11-03) 
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		<title>Bierce, Ambrose -- &#8220;Inhumanity,&#8221; &#8220;Devil&#8217;s Dictionary&#8221; column, San Francisco Wasp (1885-10-17)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="hangingindent">INHUMANITY, <i>n.</i> One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.</p>
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<br><b>Ambrose Bierce</b> (1842–1914?) American writer and journalist<br>&#8220;Inhumanity,&#8221; &#8220;Devil&#8217;s Dictionary&#8221; column, San Francisco <i>Wasp</i> (1885-10-17) 
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		<description><![CDATA[CHORUS: May the earth lie light upon you, lady! [ΚΥΚΛΩΨ: κούφα σοι χθὼν ἐπάνωθε πέσοι, γύναι.] Cf. Martial (AD 90). (Source (Greek)). Other translations: Light lie the earth upon that gentle breast. [tr. Potter (1781); Antistrophe 1] On thee may the turf lightly lie. [tr. Wodhull (1782); Ode, II. 1.] Light may the earth from [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="hangingindent">CHORUS: May the earth lie light upon you, lady!</p>
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<p class="hangingindent">[ΚΥΚΛΩΨ: <span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">κούφα σοι<br />
χθὼν ἐπάνωθε πέσοι, γύναι.]</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<br><b>Euripides</b> (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist<br><i>Alcestis</i> [Ἄλκηστις ], l.  463ff (438 BC) [tr. Kovacs (1994)] 
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Cf. <a href="https://wist.info/martial/48119/">Martial</a> (AD 90).<br><br>

(<a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0087%3Acard%3D455#:~:text=%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%8D%CF%86%CE%B1%20%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%B9%0A%CF%87%CE%B8%E1%BD%BC%CE%BD%20%E1%BC%90%CF%80%CE%AC%CE%BD%CF%89%CE%B8%CE%B5%20%CF%80%CE%AD%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%B9%2C%20%CE%B3%CF%8D%CE%BD%CE%B1%CE%B9.">Source (Greek)</a>). Other translations: <br><br>

<blockquote>Light lie the earth upon that gentle breast.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Bacch%C3%A6_Ion_Alcestis_Medea_Hippolytu/L8tCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22light%20lie%20the%22">Potter</a> (1781); Antistrophe 1]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>On thee may the turf lightly lie.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hw2j3q&seq=34&q1=%22turf+lightly%22">Wodhull</a> (1782); Ode, II. 1.]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Light may the earth from above fall upon thee, lady!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t39020x46&seq=28&q1=%22light+may%22">Buckley</a> (1858)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Oh, may light<br>
Earth weigh upon thee, O worthy Wife!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b290562&seq=66&q1=%22earth+weigh%22">HBL</a> (1884); Ode 4, Strophe]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>May the earth, lady, lightly fall on thee.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t5n879241&seq=34&q1=%22may+the+earth%22">Cudworth</a> (1888)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Light lie the earth above thee, lady!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Plays_of_Euripides_(Coleridge)/Alcestis#:~:text=Light%20lie%20the%20earth%20above%20thee%2C%20lady!">Coleridge</a> (1891)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Light lie on thee, Lady, the sward!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tragedies_of_Euripides_(Way)/Alcestis#:~:text=Light%20lie%20on%20thee%2C%20Lady%2C%20the%20sward!">Way</a> (1894); Strophe 2]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Light upon thee fall the clay!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiuo.ark:/13960/t3pw25f2d&seq=20&q1=%22light+upon+thee%22">Beloit College</a> (1908); Second Stasimon, Strophe B]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Light be the carven stone<br>
Above thee lying!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Alcestis_of_Euripides_(Murray_1920)/Text#:~:text=Light%20be%20the,Above%20thee%20lying!">Murray</a> (1915)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Light rest the earth above you,<br>
O woman.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://classics.mit.edu/Euripides/alcestis.html#:~:text=Light%20rest%20the%20earth%20above%20you%2C%0AO%20woman.">Aldington</a> (1930); Strophe 2]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/alcestisofeuripi0000unse_g1f5/page/34/mode/2up?q=%22lightly+rest%22">Fitts/Fitzgerald</a> (1936); Ode 2, Strophe 2]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Then lightly fall the earth to fill your grave.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/alcestisotherpla0000euri_b7n1/page/n135/mode/2up?q=%22fill+your+grave%22">Vellacott</a> (1953)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Lightly, I pray, may the earth lie upon you, lady! <br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/medeaotherplays0000euri_d3q9/page/20/mode/2up?q=%22may+the+earth%22">Davie</a> (1996)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Lightly<br>
may the earth weigh on you, woman.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/womenonedgefourp00euri/page/120/mode/2up?q=%22may+the+earth%22">Rabinowitz</a> (1999)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>May the soil fall lightly upon your body, my queen!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://bacchicstage.wordpress.com/euripides/alcestis/#:~:text=May%20the%20soil%20fall%20lightly%20upon%20your%20body%2C%20my%20queen!">Theodoridis</a> (2008)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Light may the earth<br> 
fall upon you, my queen. <br>
[tr. <a href="https://diotima-doctafemina.org/translations/greek/euripides-alcestis/#:~:text=Light%20may%20the%20earth%C2%A0%0Afall%20upon%20you%2C%20my%20queen.">Luschnig / Luschnig</a> (2019); Stasimon 2, Strophe 2]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many of the other boys I saw in hospitals are now leading happy and useful lives, but they carry with them, day after day, the results of the war. The gallantry of youth, bearing handicaps which will be a cross all their lives, seems to me a theme for some great poet. Though the war had to be fought to preserve our freedom, their full reward for their suffering is not yet in sight. To see that it is paid in full measure is an obligation which all of us who lived through the war owe to the thousands who fought it. If we do not achieve the real ends for which they sacrificed — a peaceful world in which there exists freedom from fear both of aggression and want — we have failed. This is the challenge presented to the citizens of our democracy by the last war and we shall not have paid our debt until these ends are achieved.</p>
<br><b>Eleanor Roosevelt</b> (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, activist; First Lady of the US (1933–45)<br>Memoir (1949), <i>This I Remember</i>, ch. 19 &#8220;Franklin&#8217;s Second War Trip and My Third: Teheran and the Caribbean&#8221; 
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In her compiled 1961 <i>Autobiography</i>, Part 2, ch. 26 "Teheran and the Caribbean," <a href="https://archive.org/details/autobiographyofe0000unse_m2x3/page/260/mode/2up?q=%22we+have+failed%22">this is rendered</a>:<br><br>

<blockquote>Many of the boys I saw in hospitals are now leading happy and useful lives, but they carry with them, day after day, the results of the war. If we do not achieve the ends for which they sacrificed — a peaceful world in which there exists freedom from fear of both aggression and want — we have failed. We shall not have paid our debt until these ends are achieved.</blockquote>						</span>
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		<title>Bible, Vol. 1. Old Testament -- Book 22a. Wisdom (Wisdom of Solomon)  7: 1ff (Wis 7:1–6) [tr. CEB (2011)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m just a human like everyone else. I’m a descendant of the first person who was created out of earth. My flesh was molded into shape during the time that I was in my mother’s womb. Over the course of ten months, I took shape from her blood, built up out of a man’s seed [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’m just a human like everyone else. I’m a descendant of the first person who was created out of earth. My flesh was molded into shape during the time that I was in my mother’s womb. Over the course of ten months, I took shape from her blood, built up out of a man’s seed and a night of pleasure. When I was born, I gulped in the same air as everyone else. I dropped out onto the same earth that all people share. I let out my first cry that was just like the sound anyone else makes. I was nurtured by snug clothes and good care. No king has ever begun life any differently. There’s only one way into life for everyone, and only one way out as well.</p>
<p>[Εἰμὶ μὲν κἀγὼ θνητὸς ἄνθρωπος ἴσος ἅπασιν<br />
καὶ γηγενοῦς ἀπόγονος πρωτοπλάστου·<br />
καὶ ἐν κοιλίᾳ μητρὸς ἐγλύφην σὰρξ<br />
δεκαμηνιαίῳ χρόνῳ παγεὶς ἐν αἵματι<br />
ἐκ σπέρματος ἀνδρὸς καὶ ἡδονῆς ὕπνῳ συνελθούσης.<br />
καὶ ἐγὼ δὲ γενόμενος ἔσπασα τὸν κοινὸν ἀέρα<br />
καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν ὁμοιοπαθῆ κατέπεσον γῆν<br />
πρώτην φωνὴν τὴν ὁμοίαν πᾶσιν ἴσα κλαίων·<br />
ἐν σπαργάνοις ἀνετράφην καὶ φροντίσιν.<br />
οὐδεὶς γὰρ βασιλέων ἑτέραν ἔσχεν γενέσεως ἀρχήν,<br />
μία δὲ πάντων εἴσοδος εἰς τὸν βίον ἔξοδός τε ἴση.]</p>
<br><b>The Bible (The Old Testament)</b> (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals) <br>Book 22a. <i>Wisdom (Wisdom of Solomon)</i>  7: 1ff (Wis 7:1–6) [tr. CEB (2011)] 
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The reference to human pregnancy is given in lunar months, thus ten.<br><br>

Wisdom (also known as "Wisdom of Solomon) is one of the Apocrypha, not included in many Protestant Bibles or in the <i>Tanakh</i> (though in the Septuagint). See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Wisdom">here</a> for more information on the origin and acceptance of this book. <br><br>

(<a href="https://tips.translation.bible/tip_verse/wis-71/">Source (Greek)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab">I myself also am a mortal man, like to all, and the offspring of him that was first made of the earth,<br>
<span class="tab">And in my mother's womb was fashioned to be flesh in the time of ten months, being compacted in blood, of the seed of man, and the pleasure that came with sleep.<br>
<span class="tab">And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.<br>
<span class="tab">I was nursed in swaddling clothes, and that with cares.<br>
<span class="tab">For there is no king that had any other beginning of birth.<br>
<span class="tab">For all men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Wisdom-of-Solomon-Chapter-7/">KJV</a> (1611)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab">I myself also am a mortal man, like all others, and of the race of him, that was first made of the earth, and in the womb of my mother I was fashioned to be flesh.<br>
<span class="tab">In the time of ten months I was compacted in blood, of the seed of man, and the pleasure of sleep concurring.<br>
<span class="tab">And being born I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, that is made alike, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.<br>
<span class="tab">I was nursed in swaddling clothes, and with great cares.<br>
<span class="tab">For none of the kings had any other beginning of birth.<br>
<span class="tab">For all men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Wisdom%207%3A1-6&version=DRA">DRA</a> (1899)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Like all the others, I too am a mortal man, <br>
descendant of the first being fashioned from the earth, <br>
I was modelled in flesh within my mother's womb,<br>
for ten months taking shape in her blood by means of virile seed and pleasure, sleep's companion.<br>
I too, when I was born, drew in the common air, <br>
I fell on the same ground that bears us all, <br>
a wail my first sound, as for all the rest.<br>
I was nurtured in swaddling clothes, with every care.<br>
No king has known any other beginning of existence;<br>
for all there is one way only into life, as out of it.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.seraphim.my/bible/jb/JB-OT27%20WISDOM%20(GK).htm#:~:text=Like%20all%20the,out%20of%20it.">JB</a> (1966)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I too am mortal like everyone else, <br>
a descendant of the first man formed from the earth. <br>
I was modelled in flesh inside a mother's womb,<br>
where, for ten months, in blood I acquired substance -- the result of virile seed and pleasure, sleep's companion.<br>
I too, when I was born, drew in the common air, <br>
I fell on the same ground that bears us all, <br>
and crying was the first sound I made, like everyone else.<br>
I was nurtured in swaddling clothes, with every care.<br>
No king has known any other beginning of existence;<br>
for there is only one way into life, and one way out of it.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.bibliacatolica.com.br/en/new-jerusalem-bible/wisdom-of-solomon/7/#:~:text=I%20too%20am,out%20of%20it.">NJB</a> (1985)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Like every human being, I am mortal. I am a descendant of that first man, who was made from the soil. I was conceived from the sperm of a man, in the pleasure of intercourse. For nine months my flesh took shape in the blood of my mother's womb. When I was born, I came into the world like anyone else. I began to breathe the same air we all breathe; and like everyone else, the first sound I made was a cry. I was wrapped in cloths and cared for. No king ever began life differently. For all of us, there is one way into life, and there is one way out.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Wisdom%207%3A1-6&version=GNT">GNT</a> (1992 ed.)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I also am mortal like everyone else,<br>
a descendant of the first-formed child of earth,<br>
and in the womb of a mother I was molded into flesh,<br>
within the period of ten months, compacted with blood,<br>
from the seed of a man and the pleasure of marriage.<br>
And when I was born, I began to breathe the common air<br>
and fell upon the kindred earth;<br>
my first sound was a cry, as is true of all.<br>
I was nursed with care in swaddling cloths.<br>
For no king has had a different beginning of existence;<br>
there is for all one entrance into life and one way out.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Wisdom%207%3A1-6&version=NRSVUE">NRSV</a> (2021 ed.)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Burke, Edmund -- Speech (1780-09-06), prior to the election, Bristol Guildhall</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have no idea of a liberty unconnected with honesty and justice. Nor do I believe that any good constitutions of government or of freedom can find it necessary for their security to doom any part of the people to a permanent slavery. Such a constitution of freedom, if such can be, is in effect [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<br><b>Edmund Burke</b> (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman, orator, philosopher<br>Speech (1780-09-06), prior to the election, Bristol Guildhall 
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Regarding Catholic emancipation following the Gordon Riots over the Papists Act of 1778. He failed to be re-elected to his seat in Parliament in the election.

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