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Quotes from The Influence of Literature upon Society — Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

1766–1817 France

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If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality.

The Influence of Literature upon Society (1800)

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