It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely … - James Russell Lowell

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One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.

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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