We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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- We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
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- The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
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