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Classical antiquity2 quotes
Among all men on Earth, bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the Muse has taught them songs, and loves the race of bards. — Homer · 700 BCThe sailor talks of breezes: the ploughman, of oxen: the soldier counts wounds, the shepherd counts sheep. — Sextus Propertius · 24 BC