"I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme." -- Henry James
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Daily Dose
From The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays, by Isaiah Berlin
NO DOUBT
"No doubt Gibbon and Michelet, Macaulay and Carlyle, Taine and Trotsky (to mention only the eminent dead) do try the patience of those who do not accept their opinions."
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