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  • Unworthy was what he did to her, worthy was what he suffered.

    -Aeschylus
    Clytemnestra speaks of  Agamemnon's sacrifice of their daughter Iphigeneia.  Agamemnon,1.1527^8 (translated by H Lloyd- Jones).

  • It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of him.

    - Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
      Essays, no.17,'Of Superstition'.

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