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Fix tow spleling mistakes.
Differential Revision: https://code.wildfiregames.com/D498 Patch By: Phormio This was SVN commit r19646.
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"Wait for the wisest of all counsellors, time." - Pericles, a cautious politician who avoided war (Plutarch, "Parallel Lives", "Pericles", sec. 18)
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"Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go." - Pericles, addressing the Athenian assembly after a plague had weakened the city (Thucydides, "History of the Peloponnesian War", II. 63.3)
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"War is sweet to those who have no experience of it, but the experienced man fears its approach in his heart." - Pindar (fragment 110)
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"Themistocles robbed his fellow-citizens of spear and shield, and degraded the people of Athens to the rowing-pad and the oar." - Plato, no friend of the Athenian navy (Plutarch, "Parallel Lives", "Themistocles", sec. 3)
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"Themistocles robbed his fellow citizens of spear and shield, and degraded the people of Athens to the rowing-pad and the oar." - Plato, no friend of the Athenian navy (Plutarch, "Parallel Lives", "Themistocles", sec. 3)
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"No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days." - Plautus ("The Swaggering Soldier", Act III, scene 1, 146)
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"You cannot eat your cake and have it too, unless you think your money is immortal." - Plautus: ("Trinummus", Act II, scene 4, 12)
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"You cannot eat your cake and have it too, unless you think your money is immortal." - Plautus ("Trinummus", Act II, scene 4, 12)
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"He \[Alexander] thought nothing invincible for the courageous, and nothing secure for the cowardly." - Plutarch ("Parallel Lives", "Alexander", sec. 58)
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"One \[...] shot an arrow at him with such accuracy and force that it pierced his breastplate and got stuck in his ribs. \[...] Alexander recoiled and sank to his knees. \[...] At last Alexander killed the barbarian. But he received many wounds, at last was struck on the neck with a mace, and leaned against the city wall, his eyes still fixed upon his foes." - Plutarch about the Mallian Campaign ("Parallel Lives", "Alexander", sec. 63)
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"When the pirates demanded a ransom of twenty talents for him, Caesar burst out laughing. They did not know, he said, who it was that they had captured, and he volunteered to pay fifty." - Plutarch, who mentions later that Caesar got his money back and had his captors crucified ("Parallel Lives", "Caesar", sec. 2)
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