Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes by Clifton Fadiman & Andre Bernard

Author:Clifton Fadiman & Andre Bernard
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: REF019000
ISBN: 9780446931267
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2000-09-20T21:00:00+00:00

LYAUTEY, Louis Hubert Gonzalve (1854–1934), French general.

1 After the war was over, Lyautey asked his gardener to plant a tree in a particular part of his estate. The gardener objected that the tree the marshal had chosen was particularly slow-growing and would not reach maturity for at least a century. The marshal replied, “In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon.”

LYCURGUS (7th century BC), Spartan statesman.

1 Lycurgus is credited with having created the Spartan constitution, with its strict military discipline and repressive state control of the peasantry. When someone asked why it was that he had not made the constitution of Sparta a democratic one, Lycurgus retorted, “Try the experiment in your own family.”

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