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

~George Henry Lewes

Topics: Cause Effect Literature Once Progress Social Social Progress

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A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

~George Henry Lewes

Topics: Accomplished Feeble Man May Poet

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

~George Henry Lewes

Topics: Amuse Animate Literature Object

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Science is not addressed to poets.

~George Henry Lewes

Topics: Poets Science

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Good writers are of necessity rare.

~George Henry Lewes

Topics: Good Necessity Rare Writers

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All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

~George Henry Lewes

Topics: Good Insight Literature Primarily Rests

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

~George Henry Lewes

Topics: Bad Defined Imitation Imperfect Insight Literature May Rests Second-Hand Seeing Which

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

~George Henry Lewes

Topics: Literature Tidings Within Without World

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In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

~George Henry Lewes

Topics: Complex Indispensable Signs Thought Trains

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The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.

~George Henry Lewes

Topics: Another Depends Experiences Mind Organised Over Superiority Thus Which

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: April 18th, 1817

Died: November 28th, 1878

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