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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff. Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour. For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
john galsworthy— The Man of Property (1906) Volume I of The Forsyte Saga
Such was the end of Philip (II, king of Macedonia) ...He had ruled 24 years. He is known to fame as one who with but the slenderest resources to support his claim to a throne won for himself the greatest empire among the Hellenes ( Greeks ), while the growth of his position was not due so much to his prowess in arms as to his adroitness and cordiality in diplomacy.
— Diodorus Siculus, "Histories", 16.95.1-2
