XII. 342–343 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.”
— H. Rider Haggard, book The Ancient Allan
The Ancient Allan (1920), CHAPTER I, OLD FRIEND
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