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• The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

  George Henry Lewes

  Mean, Self, Intellectual

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies; but it can never be a question that a man should be silent if unprepared to speak the truth as he conceives it.

  George Henry Lewes

  Wise, Men, Often Is

  "The Principles of Success in Literature". The Fortnightly Review, Volume 1, www.gutenberg.org. 1865.

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• Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.

  George Henry Lewes

  Writing, Science, Library

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

  George Henry Lewes

  Hygiene, Literature, Objects

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".

  George Henry Lewes

  Race, Individual

  George Henry Lewes (1875). “Problems of Life and Mind”, p.135

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