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Author - Lytton Strachey
Quotes by : Lytton Strachey
poetry
It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.
writing
A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile
dying
If this is dying I don't think much of it.
happiness
Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
historian
For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies,....
reading
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
humor
There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie....
discipline
It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by strict....
Too Much
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
Action
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war -....
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