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“Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.”

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Logan Pearsall Smith was an English author renowned for his essays and literary criticism. His unique writing style has won the admiration of readers. more

“Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.”

Men Should Wells Has Beens Done Poor Figures Pity Immortality Companion Shelves Essayists

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“Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.”

World Ideals Possession Incapable Anthology

Book:Lyra Heroica: A Book of Verse for Boys

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“Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or, if this way of putting it seem indecorous and abominable, he very often writes so well that you are loth to believe he could ever have written thus extremely ill.”

Ifs Way Writing Believe Wells Seems Written Ill

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“The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.”

Wells Kind Mystery Appearance Unexpected Disguise Traps Retreat Scandal Monument Endeavour Labyrinth Rumours Pseudonyms

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