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“The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.”

George Henry Lewes

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It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

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I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us. The wit for the most part is dreary or foolish; the tone is coarse and farcical; and the characters want the fine distinctive touches he so well knew how to give. If some luckless wight had written such…

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Science is the systematic classification of experience.

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In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

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Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities.…

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If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

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To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.

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Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

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