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> [Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lytton-strachey/perhaps-the-best-test-of-a-man-s-intelligence-is-his-capacity-for/)

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## More by Lytton Strachey

> [With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lytton-strachey/with-a-very-few-exceptions-every-word-in-the-french-vocabulary-comes/)

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> [Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lytton-strachey/unlike-the-majority-of-the-writers-of-his-age-la-rochefoucauld-was-an/)

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> [When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lytton-strachey/when-the-french-nation-gradually-came-into-existence-among-the-ruins/)

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> [Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lytton-strachey/perhaps-of-all-the-creations-of-man-language-is-the-most-astonishing/)

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> [Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lytton-strachey/though-with-the-ascendancy-of-louis-the-political-power-of-the-nobles/)

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> [The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lytton-strachey/the-history-of-the-victorian-age-will-never-be-written-we-know-too/)

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> [The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lytton-strachey/the-old-interests-of-aristocracy-the-romance-of-action-the-exalted/)

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> [English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lytton-strachey/english-dramatic-literature-is-of-course-dominated-by-shakespeare-and/)

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> [How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lytton-strachey/how-far-the-existence-of-the-academy-has-influenced-french-literature/)

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> [Discretion is not the better part of biography.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lytton-strachey/discretion-is-not-the-better-part-of-biography/)

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> [There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lytton-strachey/there-is-something-dark-and-wintry-about-the-atmosphere-of-the-later/)

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> [Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lytton-strachey/modern-as-the-style-of-pascal-s-writing-is-his-thought-is-deeply/)

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> [Englishmen have always loved Moliere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lytton-strachey/englishmen-have-always-loved-moliere/)

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> [During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lytton-strachey/during-this-earlier-period-of-his-activity-voltaire-seems-to-have/)

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> [In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lytton-strachey/in-pure-literature-the-writers-of-the-eighteenth-century-achieved/)

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