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The sons of Pyrrhus, when they were children [p. 85] asked their father to whom he intended to leave the kingdom; and he said, ‘To that one of you who keeps his sword sharper.’ 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Pyrrhus, chap. ix. (388 A).
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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