Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.
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.
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.
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.
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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