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Reading is a wrestling with ideas greater than any we can create for ourselves. It has been said, a little extravagantly, that reading can get the better of most physical sufferings, all indeed save the pangs of hunger.

— Sidney Lee The Place of English Literature in the Modern University (1913)

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I believe that the luxuriance of Shakespeare's dramatic instinct largely dominates that outburst of lyric melody which gives the Sonnets their life.

Every great national literature is a fruit of much foreign sustenance and refreshment, however capable the national spirit may prove of mastering the foreign element.

The French Renaissance in England (1910)

Discriminating brevity is a law of the right biographic method.

He had a splendid appetite at all times, and never toyed with his food

Shakespeare avows, although in phraseology that is often cryptic, the experiences of his own heart

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