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I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

I went to a basic school, which had children from all corners of the world, and met my best friend and had to learn Greek because she didn't speak English.

I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.

It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.

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

I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time.