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..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking ...more

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When you lay down a proposition which is forthwith controverted, it is of course optional with you to take up the cudgels in its defence. If you are d...more

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She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.