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.

  Source: 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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