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J. G. Holland was a 19th-century American author. Josiah Gilbert Holland was an American novelist, essayist, poet and spiritual mentor to the Nation in the years following the Civil War. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Work — The value of effort, discipline, and meaningful labour

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