"The cherished traditions of a people, however extravagant they may appear, are in every instance valuable sources of information. No matter what amount of error may have been heaped upon them in their downward course through ages—no matter what incrustations may have formed around them—still like the statue in the block of marble the original form of truth is there, and requires only the discriminating hands of the historian to reveal."
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Denis Florence MacCarthy
(26 May 1817 – 9 April 1882) was an Irish poet, translator, and biographer, from Dublin.
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