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Literature Quotes by Stephen Leacock
- In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles,…
- The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.
- The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
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