A Matter of Life and Death

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Conductor 71:
[On the Stairway to Heaven, passing by various statues representing important figures in history, points to a statue of Abraham Lincoln] What about him?

Peter:
Lincoln? No, it's hardly fair to drag him in. I don't believe *he'd* be prejudiced.

Conductor 71:
Plato. How would you like to be defended by Plato? Nobody knew more about reasoning than Plato.

Peter:
He was eighty-one when he died, he might be too old to think love important.

Conductor 71:
You think so? Anyhow, Plato had very elementary ideas about love.

Peter:
Besides, didn't he quote Sophocles when somebody asked him if he was still able to appreciate a woman?

Conductor 71:
What did the old boy say?

Peter:
Well, he said, uh, "I'm only too glad to be rid of all that. It's like escaping from bondage to a raving madman."

Conductor 71:
[scoffs] These Greeks, cold as their marble. Now, if he had been French... Richelieu, for example, irresistible at eighty. How *about* Richelieu?

Peter:
No, I never liked him much in "The Three Musketeers".

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