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Formerly we used to canonise our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarise them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
Oscar Wilde,
The Critic as Artist
, 1891
Posted on August 5, 2002 at 11:14 AM
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