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The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

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The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.

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The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

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The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

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Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.

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I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.

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There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

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Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

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As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

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America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Historian

Born: August 13th, 1823

Died: June 7th, 1910

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