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Woman: I am surprised that you are not fighting to defend civilization.
Garrod: Madam, I am the civilization they are fighting to defend.


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H. W. Garrod

H. W. Garrod

Born: 1878
Died: 1960 (aged 82)
Bio: Heathcote William Garrod was a British classical scholar and literary scholar.
Known for:
  1. Oxford Book of Latin Verse
  2. Poetry and the criticism of life (1931)
  3. Scholarship: Its Meaning and Value (1946)
  4. The study of good letters
  5. Tolstoi's theory of art (1935)

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