"America is supposed to be given over to……" — Goldwin Smith
"America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious."
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32 Quotes by Goldwin Smith
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Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
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The father of confederation is deadlock.
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We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other…
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The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.
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Above all nations is humanity,
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Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into…
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Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
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There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and…
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Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly…
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The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to…
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The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual…
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No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist…
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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