“I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men”
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
“I am quite content, in this Comedy of Appearances, to follow the old romancers' lead.”
— James Branch Cabell, book Figures of Earth
"To Sinclair Lewis : A Foreword"
Figures of Earth (1921)
Context: I am quite content, in this Comedy of Appearances, to follow the old romancers' lead. "Such and such things were said and done by our great Manuel," they say to us, in effect: "such and such were the appearances, and do you make what you can of them."
I say that, too, with the addition that in real life, also, such is the fashion in which we are compelled to deal with all happenings and with all our fellows, whether they wear or lack the gaudy name of heroism.
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