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"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the worLd" Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes šŸŒšŸ—
 
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To a father growing old, nothing is dearer (more expensive) than a daughter" Greek playwright Euripides šŸ›

fixed it.
I guess the correct wording should be "nothing is more dear" rather than "nothing is dearer" but even though I did pretty well in English during the very little time I spent at school, I think Euripides can lay claim to be a much more enlightened scholar than I šŸ‘Øā€šŸŽ“
 
I guess the correct wording should be "nothing is more dear" rather than "nothing is dearer" but even though I did pretty well in English during the very little time I spent at school, I think Euripides can lay claim to be a much more enlightened scholar than I šŸ‘Øā€šŸŽ“
As a Greek, what he actually said was probably more like:
Ī“Ī¹Ī± Ī­Ī½Ī±Ī½ Ļ€Ī±Ļ„Ī­ĻĪ± Ļ€ĪæĻ… Ī³ĪµĻĪ½Ī¬ Ļ„ĪÆĻ€ĪæĻ„Ī± Ī“ĪµĪ½ ĪµĪÆĪ½Ī±Ī¹ Ļ€Ī¹Īæ Ī±Ī³Ī±Ļ€Ī·Ļ„ĻŒ Ī±Ļ€ĻŒ Ī¼Ī¹Ī± ĪŗĻŒĻĪ· ;)

According to Google Translate, anyway.
 

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