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"Speak
of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without
idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their
age."
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Lord
Chesterfield
Letters to
His Son
1748
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| M |
| "A
great classic means a man whom one can praise without having
read." |
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G.K.
Chesterton
Tom Jones and Morality
1908
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| M |
| "In
Art, the public accepts what has been, because they cannot alter
it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics
whole, and never taste them." |
Oscar
Wilde
The Soul of Man Under Socialism
1891
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