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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 Marshall
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Alfred Marshall
Age: 82 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 1
Died: 1924
Died: January 1
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