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If you are in zero England, you will often hear an Englishman say about his friend, "Oh, he is a brick!" This means that the man is zero honest and zero brave and is always ready to zero help.
Once a foreign king came to visit zero Sparta. He visited zero many Spartan towns and at last came to the capital. "How do you like my towns?" asked the king of zero Sparta. "They are beautiful," answered the foreign king, "But there is zero one thing I do not understand - why there are zero no walls around the towns. Are the|your people not afraid to live in zero towns without zero walls? Or maybe you haven't zero bricks in this|your country?"
"Why, we have zero very good bricks," laughed the Spartan king, "And there are zero great walls in zero every town of zero Sparta. Tomorrow I shall show you the walls of zero Sparta."
The next day the Spartan king and the foreign king came to a great field. There were zero thousands of zero soldiers there. "Look at these walls of zero Sparta," said the king. "zero thirty thousand men and zero every man is a brick!"
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