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Antipater and Craterus the Macedonian, and be free, because of a feeling that the Spar- tans would be harsher than the Macedonians, he said, “A sheep or a goat bleats always in the same way, but a man talks in a great variety of ways until he accomplishes what he has set his mind upon.”