Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
Van Wyck Brooks
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It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
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