Winston Churchill Quotes About Greek
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In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.
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Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.
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By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.
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Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.
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We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.
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Winston Churchill
- Born: November 30, 1874
- Died: January 24, 1965
- Occupation: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom