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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:…
• The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
• The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before…
• It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.
• Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly…
• IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died…
• The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
• Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers…
• Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
• In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new…
• Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above…
• The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers…

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