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When their king promised to wipe out completely another city which, as it happened, had given much trouble to the Spartans, they would not allow it, saying, ‘You must not abolish nor remove the whetstone of our youth.’
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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