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George Henry Lewes Quotes: It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
         

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.


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To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.



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Good writers are of necessity rare.



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