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" But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist. "
Lytton Strachey
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" When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved. "
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" Englishmen have always loved Moliere. "
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" English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind. "
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" Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work. "
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" How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. "
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" The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own. "
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" The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. "
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" There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages. "
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" In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought. "
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" With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin. "
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" Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic. "
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" Discretion is not the better part of biography. "
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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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" The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint. "
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" During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius. "
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" Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past. "
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" In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal. "
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" In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought. "
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" Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. "
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