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Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their praises.

The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection, and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow.

Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.

Rarely do they appear great before their valets.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.