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'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

If you look at Victorian England, being a soldier was considered a noble profession.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.

A heroic nature is very Greek.

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably saw ancient Britain as an alien land.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.