... Voltaire ...The great potentate of the eighteenth century has suffered cruelly indeed at the hands of posterity. Everyone, it is true, has heard of him; but who has read him? It is by his name that ye shall know him, and not by his works. With the exception of his letters, of Candide, of Akakia, and a few other of his shorter pieces, the vast mass of his productions has been already consigned to oblivion.

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Lytton Strachey was a 19th-century English writer and critic. Giles Lytton Strachey was an English writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. Read more on Wikipedia →

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