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James A. Garfield1831–1881

The world’s history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word.

James A. Garfield on poetry

The Province of History (c. 1856), Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 620

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