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Achilles Quote by Jonathan Swift

“Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality…” quote by Jonathan Swift
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“Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.”

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