The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.Van Wyck Brooks
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.
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Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
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