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“So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge.”
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“Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.”
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Notes on a Cellar-Book (1920; Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008) p. 32
“Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.”
Source: A Last Vintage, p. 172.
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“Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.”
Source: A Last Vintage, p. 172.
A Scrap Book (London: Macmillan, 1922) p. 31
“Historians may lie, but History cannot.”
Source: A Last Vintage, p. 172.
“The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.”
George Saintsbury: The Memorial Volume (London: Methuen, 1946) p. 120.
A Last Scrap Book (London: Macmillan, 1924) p. 42
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Preface to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (London: George Allen, 1894) p. ix
