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“The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets literature decay than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.”

“And for one beautiful day there was peace.”

“It has been complained, with some justice, that I dump my note-books on the public.”

“The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.”

“My worst mistake was the stupid suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism, all along.”

“Man reading shd. be man intensely alive. The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.”

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— John Hawkesworth (book editor)

Literature1715–1773

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— Charles Webster Leadbeater

occultism1854–1934

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