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Tom Robbins

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Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.

 
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Philip was born a Greek of the most aristocratic, indeed of divine, descent... Philip was both a Greek and a Macedonian, even as Demosthenes was a Greek and an Athenian...The Macedonians over whom Philip was to rule were an outlying family member of the Greek-speaking peoples.

 
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