LETTERS; Tigers, sheep and wolves

Sunday 27 August 1995 00:02 BST

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IT IS ironical that in this week of all weeks one reads of the wide currency given to the slogan "It is better to have lived one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep" (Quotes of the Week, 20 August). On entering Taranto harbour in September 1942, almost the first large building we saw bore the massive black lettering: "Meglio vivere un giorno di leone che cento anni di peccora". It was Mussolini's favourite exhortation to his Fascists.

Noel Currer-Briggs

Ely, Cambridgeshire

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