A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile

A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile

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The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

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The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

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If this is dying I don't think much of it.

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Discretion is not the better part of biography.

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It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by strict method, by stern discipline, by rigid attention to detail, by ceaseless labor, by the fixed determination of an indomitable will.

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A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile

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For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.

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It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

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