From (The introduction to) The Country Doctor, by Honore de BalzacMINUTENESS
"The extreme minuteness of detail, effective as it is in the picture of the house and elsewhere, becomes a little tedious even for well-tried and well-affected readers, in reference to the exact number of cartwrights and harness-makers, and so forth; while the modern reader pure and simple, though schooled to endure detail, is schooled to endure it only of the ugly."
Introduction by George Saintsbury, Everyman's Library edition
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