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George Henry Lewes was a British philosopher, literary critic, and writer. Born on April 18, 1817, and died on November 28, 1878, Lewes is known for his contributions to moral philosophy, aesthetics, and literary criticism.

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Famous George Henry Lewes Quotes

“Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them.”

“It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.”

Art Said Ends Done Literature Effects Produce Expression Understood Art Is Aim Condemnation

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

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“All good Literature rests primarily on insight.”

Literature Insight Good Literature

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“All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.”

May Hands Literature Seeing Insight Defined Imperfect Imitation Second Hand

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“Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.”

Real Literature Bases Personal Experiences

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“Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.”

World Literature Tidy Tidings

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“It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.”

Doe Art Literature Views Effects Succeed Deceiving Rehabilitation Insincere Literature And Art

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Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.”

Literature Social Causes Progress Effects Hygiene Social Progress

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“The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.”

Literature Objects Hygiene

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Source: The Principles of Success in Literature