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A large head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one. - [Hair] That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick. - [Soldiers] There thou beholdest the walls of Sparta, and every man a brick. - according to Plutarch [Character] To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set a democracy in your own house." - in Plutarch's "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders" [Democracy]
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