[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.

~ Maryrose Wood

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Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive

~ Euripides

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Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?

~ Alex Morritt

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Hero,” said Machaon to his sister who was still muttering to her gods. “Please stop. Surely the gods would have heard you by now … let’s try not to annoy them.

~ Sulari Gentill

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Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But he who garners day by day the good life, he is happiest.

~ Gilbert Murray

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I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

~ Euripides

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It's human, we all put self interest first.

~ Euripides

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Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

~ Euripides

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Old loves are dropped when new ones come

~ Euripides

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Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

~ Euripides

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Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.

~ Euripides

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In childbirth grief begins.

~ Euripides

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Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

~ Euripides

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