Quotes with ancients

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• Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

  William Penn
  English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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• Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.

  Lord Chesterfield
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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• Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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• Bacchus: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

  The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• convenient
• learning
• ancients
• contempt
• idolatry
• invented

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