Joseph Jacobs

The first glimpse that we have of the notions which the Greeks possessed of the shape and the inhabitants of the earth is afforded by the poems passing under the name of Homer.

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These are some quotes by Australian author Joseph Jacobs Historian, who lived between August 29, 1854 and January 30, 1916.

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The great problems of the Twentieth century will have immediate relation to the discoveries of America, of Africa, and of Australia.

Joseph Jacobs

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The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.

Joseph Jacobs

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Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.

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