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Have you built your ship of death, O have you? O build your ship of death, for you will need it. David Herbert Lawrence		Monday May 19, 2025
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By Themistocles alone, or with very few others, does this saying appear to be approved, which, though Alcæus formerly had produced, many afterwards claimed: 'Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans, make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.' Aristides the Just

	Aristides the Just
	(c. 530-c. 468 BC) Orations (Jebb's edition), vol. ii. (trans. by A. W. Austin) - Athenian statesman & military commander.