QUOTE:
"In one of [Cicero's] famous Philippics attacking Mark Antony, he said, 'You assumed a man's toga and at once turned it into a prostitute's frock. At first you were a common rent boy; you charged a fixed fee, and a steep one at that.' So much for the lamentations bemoaning the loss of civility in our coarser times."
-The always witty and delightful Jeff Greenfield, writing in the Washington Monthly
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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