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Quotes from Literary Essays, vol. III — James Russell Lowell

1819–1891 United States

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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Literary Essays, vol. III (1870)

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Literary Essays, vol. III (1870)

An umbrella is of no avail against a Scotch mist.

Literary Essays, vol. III (1870)

Where Church and State are habitually associated it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.

Literary Essays, vol. III (1870)

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