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Lysistrata and women from across Greece have taken over the Acropolis
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START: As a matter of fact, it might not be so idiotic as you think to run the whole City entirely on the model of the way we deal with wool. The first thing you do with wool is wash the grease out of it;
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END: You should pick them up and bring them here, put them all together, and then out of all this make an enormous great ball of wool--and from that you can make the People a coat.
Aristophanes; Alan H. Sommerstein, Lysistrata/The Acharnians/The Clouds, Penguin Classics, 1973, p. 204.
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