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“Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Æschylus, because we read his plays!”
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- Source:
- Cleon.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 09a9f2e542809e3479ef451a93af0a2c29ca9ef04947ddcd56134e731bd7c6e7
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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