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Leader of the Chorus
With increasing excitement
But in future, my dear fellow-citizens, love and honour more those of your poets who seek to imagine and express [1055] some new thought. Make their ideas your own, keep them in your caskets like sweet-scented fruit. If you do, your clothing will emit an odour of wisdom the whole year through.
Aristophanes. Wasps. The Complete Greek Drama, vol. 2. Eugene O'Neill, Jr. New York. Random House. 1938.
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