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Eratosthenes is a mathematician among geographers, and yet a geographer among mathematicians; and consequently on both sides he offers his opponents occasions for contradiction.
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Eratosthenes contends that the aim of every poet is to entertain, not to instruct.
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You [Eratosthenes] are wrong to declare that poetry is a fable-prating old wife, who has been permitted to 'invent' (as you call it) whatever she deems suitable for purposes of entertainment.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
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Horace Leonard Jones
Born:
March 15, 1879
Died:
October 31, 1954
(aged 75)
Bio:
Horace Leonard Jones, also known as H. L Jones, was Professor of Greek at Cornell University.
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