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Do you suppose that your beard creates brains and therefore you gr

Do you suppose that your beard creates brains and therefore you grow that fly-flapper? Take my advice and shave it off at once; for that beard is a creator of lice and not of brains. – Ammianus (2nd century A.D.), in The Greek Anthology, Volume IV, “Book XI: The Co

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