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.
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unat… - Lytton Strachey
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unat…
- Lytton Strachey
Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is e… - Lytton Strachey
Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is e…
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. - Lytton Strachey
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary. - Lytton Strachey
Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.
Discretion is not the better part of biography. - Lytton Strachey
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one. - Lytton Strachey
It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.
There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love. - Lytton Strachey
There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.
A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile - Lytton Strachey
A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile
It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet. - Lytton Strachey
It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.
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