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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

— 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.

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

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