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I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.

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Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
The father of confederation is deadlock.
We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but…
The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.
Above all nations is humanity,
Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all…
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black…

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