Van Wyck Brooks

Critic

1886-02-16

Books by Van Wyck Brooks

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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.
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
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It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
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If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
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Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.
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