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> [The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-clinton-van-doren/the-first-writers-are-first-and-the-rest-in-the-long-run-nowhere-but/)

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## More by Carl Clinton Van Doren

> [Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-clinton-van-doren/guy-rivers-a-conventional-piece-as-regards-the-love-affair-which/)

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> [In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-clinton-van-doren/in-fiction-too-after-the-death-of-cooper-the-main-tendency-for-nearly/)

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> [Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-clinton-van-doren/although-by-1851-tales-of-adventure-had-begun-to-seem-antiquated-they/)

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> [The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-clinton-van-doren/the-race-of-man-while-sheep-in-credulity-are-wolves-for-conformity/)

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> [The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-clinton-van-doren/the-most-familiar-quotations-are-the-most-likely-to-be-misquoted-some/)

[Carl Clinton Van Doren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-clinton-van-doren/)

> [The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-clinton-van-doren/the-first-writers-are-first-and-the-rest-in-the-long-run-nowhere-but/)

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> [IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-clinton-van-doren/it-is-mere-coincidence-that-cooper-was-born-in-the-year-which/)

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> [Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-clinton-van-doren/familiar-life-tending-to-sordidness-had-been-succeeded-by-remote-life/)

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> [The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-clinton-van-doren/the-two-most-common-charges-against-the-older-fiction-that-it-pleased/)

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> [The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-clinton-van-doren/the-region-west-of-the-mississippi-continued-in-the-popular-mind-to/)

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> [Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-clinton-van-doren/melville-brought-to-the-task-a-sound-knowledge-of-actual-whaling-much/)

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> [It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-clinton-van-doren/it-is-obvious-that-no-difficulty-in-the-way-of-world-government-can/)

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