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Socrates and there is reason in spending the
Glaucon added, ‘Yes, Socrates, and there is reason in spending the whole of life in such discussions; but pray, without more ado, tell us how this community is to be carried out, and how the interval between birth and education is to be filled up.’
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Socrates and there is reason in spending the
Glaucon added, 'Yes, Socrates, and there is reason in spending the whole of life in such discussions; but pray, without more ado, tell us how this community is to be carried out, and how the interval between birth and education is to be filled up.'
— from The Republic by Plato

secures a territory it repeats its sibilant trill
When the Wood-Warbler secures a territory it repeats its sibilant trill with unwearying zeal, yet no sooner does a mate appear than its emotion is manifested in other directions.
— from Territory in Bird Life by Henry Eliot Howard


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