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Alexandria

«People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.»
«And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.»
«And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Alexandria, Apollos, eloquent, Ephesus
«And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy; and he put us therein.»
«The best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly»