In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
Alfred MarshallAbout author
- Author's profession: Economist
- Nationality: english
- Born: July 26, 1842
- Died: July 13, 1924
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