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“There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- f765fdb52b09ff54619fa6cdebe0ed6de02982ed85927aa81dbb4f8d5c7c389e
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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