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“A very small class of books have nothing in common say that each admits us to a world of its own that seems to have been going on before we stumbled into it, but which, once found by the right read...”
“If ever we should find ourselves disposed not to admire those writers or artists, Livy and Virgil for instance, Raphael or Michael Angelo, whom all the learned had admired, [we ought] not to follow...”
“The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.”
“Reading the very best writerslet us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoyis not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right abou...”
“Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right ab...”
