“The most important part of a man's education is that which he gives…” — J.G. Holland

“The most important part of a man's education is that which he gives himself.”

Affirming self-education as central to personal growth · Prose writing

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About J.G. Holland

24 July 1819–12 October 1881

Josiah Gilbert Holland, known to his immense nineteenth-century readership as J. G. Holland and, in his newspaper essays, as “Timothy Titcomb,” was born on 24 July 1819 in Belchertown, Massachusetts, and died on 12 October 1881 in New York City. During his lifetime he occupied an unusually broad place in American…

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