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Other writers ought to have praised their distinguished contemporaries and so stirred up the younger generation to emulate them. It is perhaps discouraging that the heroes of the Trojan war have been so celebrated by Epic and Tragic poets, that no one to-day, whatever his achievements, can hope for such fame. This feeling is due to jealousy, which is unworthy of a man of sense. In this discourse I am making a new departure; but no advance is made in any department of human activity, unless some one strikes out a new line.
Isocrates Cyprian Orations. Edward S. Forster.
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