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John Pentland Mahaffy Quotes

1839–1919 Ireland

Sir John Pentland Mahaffy (26 February 1839 – 30 April 1919) was an Irish classical scholar.

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With Alexander the stage of Greek influence spread across the world.

In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.

W. B. Stanford and R. B. McDowell Mahaffy (1971)

One specialist ... may be of the greatest use in conversation. A set of specialists when they get together are either unintelligible to the average mind or exceedingly tedious.

Conversation (1896)

...for with Alexander the stage of Greek influence spread across the world.

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