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It is not a great xerxes army of words, but a compact greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.
-James Russell Lowell
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It Is Not A Great Xerxes Army

James Russell Lowell
It is not a great xerxes army of words, but a compact greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.
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