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Quote by Gilbert Murray
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of. – Gilbert Murray

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The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. – Gilbert Murray

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Poetry
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The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece. – Gilbert Murray

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Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. – Georges Duhamel

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. – Horace

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