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Robert Graves Quote: “Give me the basket. The clean parts will be useful for household lists, and all sorts of things. Waste not, want not.”

151. “Give me the basket. The clean parts will be useful for household lists, and all sorts of things. Waste not, want not.”

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Robert Graves Quote: “If only the idiots had taken me into their confidence this story would have had a very different ending.”

152. “If only the idiots had taken me into their confidence this story would have had a very different ending.”

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Robert Graves Quote: “Eurynome and Ophion made their home upon Mount Olympus, where he vexed her by claiming to be the Author of the Universe. Forthwith she bruised his head, kicked out his teeth, and banished him to the dark caves below the earth.”

153. “Eurynome and Ophion made their home upon Mount Olympus, where he vexed her by claiming to be the Author of the Universe. Forthwith she bruised his head, kicked out his teeth, and banished him to the dark caves below the earth.”

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Robert Graves Quote: “How Graves came to fasten on Claudius as his narrator I have no means of knowing, whether it was after long deliberation or came as a shaft of light. But it is hard to imagine a better vehicle for recounting the first half-century of Imperial Rome – a chronicler who lived at the very centre of its far from healthy heart.”

154. “How Graves came to fasten on Claudius as his narrator I have no means of knowing, whether it was after long deliberation or came as a shaft of light. But it is hard to imagine a better vehicle for recounting the first half-century of Imperial Rome – a chronicler who lived at the very centre of its far from healthy heart.”

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Robert Graves Quote: “You all know the old patrician saying: Aquila non captat muscas. The eagle is the noble soul and he does not hawk for flies, which means that he does not pursue petty ends, or go out of his way to revenge himself on mean little men who have provoked him.”

155. “You all know the old patrician saying: Aquila non captat muscas. The eagle is the noble soul and he does not hawk for flies, which means that he does not pursue petty ends, or go out of his way to revenge himself on mean little men who have provoked him.”

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Robert Graves Quote: “She is the protectress of little children, and of all sucking animals, but she also loves the chase, especially that of the stag.”

156. “She is the protectress of little children, and of all sucking animals, but she also loves the chase, especially that of the stag.”

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Robert Graves Quote: “Conversations between persons who do not like one another’s selves are always sterile.”

157. “Conversations between persons who do not like one another’s selves are always sterile.”

— Robert Graves

Robert Graves Quote: “Artemis, Apollo’s sister, goes armed with bow and arrow, and, like him, has the power to send sudden plagues or sudden death among mortals, and to heal them.”

158. “Artemis, Apollo’s sister, goes armed with bow and arrow, and, like him, has the power to send sudden plagues or sudden death among mortals, and to heal them.”

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Robert Graves Quote: “The Jews are also accused of having officially sentenced Jesus to death by crucifixion after a formal trial by the Beth Din, or religious High Court; they did nothing of the sort. Nobody with the least knowledge of Jewish legal procedure can possibly credit that the High Court condemned him to death, or doubt that it was the Roman soldiers who crucified him at Pilate’s order.”

159. “The Jews are also accused of having officially sentenced Jesus to death by crucifixion after a formal trial by the Beth Din, or religious High Court; they did nothing of the sort. Nobody with the least knowledge of Jewish legal procedure can possibly credit that the High Court condemned him to death, or doubt that it was the Roman soldiers who crucified him at Pilate’s order.”

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Robert Graves Quote: “Athene, the Athenians’ city-goddess, was the parthenogenous daughter of the immortal Metis, Titaness of the fourth day and the planet Mercury who presided over all wisdom, and knowledge.”

160. “Athene, the Athenians’ city-goddess, was the parthenogenous daughter of the immortal Metis, Titaness of the fourth day and the planet Mercury who presided over all wisdom, and knowledge.”

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Robert Graves Quote: “Core, Persephone, and Hecate were, clearly the Goddess in Triad as Maiden, Nymph, and Crone, at a time when only women practiced the mysteries of agriculture, Core stands for the green corn, Persephone for the ripe eat, and Hecate for the harvested corn-the ‘carline wife’ of the English countryside, But Demeter was the goddess’s general title, and Persephone’s name has been given to Core, which confuses the story.”

161. “Core, Persephone, and Hecate were, clearly the Goddess in Triad as Maiden, Nymph, and Crone, at a time when only women practiced the mysteries of agriculture, Core stands for the green corn, Persephone for the ripe eat, and Hecate for the harvested corn-the ‘carline wife’ of the English countryside, But Demeter was the goddess’s general title, and Persephone’s name has been given to Core, which confuses the story.”

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Robert Graves Quote: “In demonstrating how not to use metaphors, they quote a line from a Graham Greene novel: “Kay Rimmer sat with her head in her hands and her eyes on the floor.” Their reply: “And her teeth on the mantelpiece?”

162. “In demonstrating how not to use metaphors, they quote a line from a Graham Greene novel: “Kay Rimmer sat with her head in her hands and her eyes on the floor.” Their reply: “And her teeth on the mantelpiece?”

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Robert Graves Quote: “Some Hellenes say that Athene had a father named Pallas, a winged goatish giant, who later tried to outrage her, and whose name she added to her own after stripping him of his skin to make the aegis, and of his wings for her own shoulders; if indeed the aegis was not the skin of Medusa the Gorgon, whom she flayed after Perseus had decapitated her.”

163. “Some Hellenes say that Athene had a father named Pallas, a winged goatish giant, who later tried to outrage her, and whose name she added to her own after stripping him of his skin to make the aegis, and of his wings for her own shoulders; if indeed the aegis was not the skin of Medusa the Gorgon, whom she flayed after Perseus had decapitated her.”

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Robert Graves Quote: “Malaria, measles, colitis, scrofula, erysipelas. The whole battalion answers ‘present,’ Xenophon, except epilepsy, venereal disease and megalomania.”

164. “Malaria, measles, colitis, scrofula, erysipelas. The whole battalion answers ‘present,’ Xenophon, except epilepsy, venereal disease and megalomania.”

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Robert Graves Quote: “Some say that Darkness was first, and from Darkness sprang Chaos. From a union between Darkness and Chaos sprang Night, Day, Erebus, and the Air.”

165. “Some say that Darkness was first, and from Darkness sprang Chaos. From a union between Darkness and Chaos sprang Night, Day, Erebus, and the Air.”

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Robert Graves Quote: “At her bidding, Ophion coiled seven times around this egg, until it hatched and split in two. Out tumbles all things that exist, her children; sun, moon, planets, stars, the earth with its mountains and rivers, its trees, herbs, and living creatures.”

166. “At her bidding, Ophion coiled seven times around this egg, until it hatched and split in two. Out tumbles all things that exist, her children; sun, moon, planets, stars, the earth with its mountains and rivers, its trees, herbs, and living creatures.”

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Robert Graves Quote: “Core’s abduction by Hades forms part of the myth in which the Hellenic trinity of gods forcibly marry the pre-Hellenic Triple-goddess-Zeus, Hera, Zeus or Poseidon, Demeter; Hades, Core-as in Irish myth Brian, Iuchar, and Fucharaba marry the Triple-goddess Eire, Fodla, and Banba. It refers to male usurpation of the female agricultural mysteries in primitive times.”

167. “Core’s abduction by Hades forms part of the myth in which the Hellenic trinity of gods forcibly marry the pre-Hellenic Triple-goddess-Zeus, Hera, Zeus or Poseidon, Demeter; Hades, Core-as in Irish myth Brian, Iuchar, and Fucharaba marry the Triple-goddess Eire, Fodla, and Banba. It refers to male usurpation of the female agricultural mysteries in primitive times.”

— Robert Graves

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