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Trojan quotes

  • If you open that Pandora's box, you never know what Trojan 'orses will appear.

    - Ernest Bevin
      Expressing doubts about the value of the newly formed Council of Europe. Recalled by his secretary Sir Roderick Barclay in Michael Charlton The Price of Victory (1983).

  • Arms, and the man I sing, who, forced by fate, And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate, Expelled and exiled, left theTrojan shore.

    -John Dryden
      Aeneis (his translation of  Virgil's  Aeneid), bk.1, l.1^3.

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