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1828–1902 England

Charles Kegan Paul (8 March 1828 – 19 July 1902) was a teacher at Eton, an Anglican vicar, publisher and author.

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It is by books that mind speaks to mind, by books the world’s intelligence grows, books are the tree of knowledge, which has grown into and twined its branches with those of the tree of life, and of their common fruit men eat and become as gods knowing good and evil.

Literature has had little to say of the labourer; and this, not that his class is lacking in interest, in poetry, in romance, but simply because those sections of society to which writers belong know nothing about him.

George Eliot's Salon on Sundays was a stately reception, in which her talk was always well worth hearing: she raised conversation on whatever subject she touched to a higher level. Miss Anna Swanwick is the only other person I know with the same immediate power of raising the conversation with apparent continuity and without seeming to force it.

Memories (1899)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Kegan Paul (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.