[MGSA-L] Proverb
Terkourafi, Marina
mt217 at illinois.edu
Wed Sep 5 08:42:43 PDT 2012
Dear list members
I recently received the following query by a journalist:
Can you confirm that this phrase is a Greek proverb or forward me to someone who can?
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
This isn't a phrase I recognize but if any of you do, please feel free to get back to me on or off list.
Many thanks,
Marina
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Marina Terkourafi
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Associate Editor, International Review of Pragmatics
Series Editor, Empirical Foundations of Theoretical Pragmatics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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