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Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.

— George Saintsbury

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Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.

Never judge a critic by your agreement with his likes and dislikes.

Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.

Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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