John Morley: “Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the…”

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Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.

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John Morley

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Morley quotes a line from Euripides, reflecting on the themes of escape and triumph over adversity.

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