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It Is Curious For One Who Studies The Action And Reaction Of National Literature On Each Other, To See The Humor Of Swift And Sterne And Fielding, After Filtering Through Richter, Reappear In Carlyle With A Tinge Of Germanism That Makes It Novel, Alien, Or Even Displeasing, As The Case May Be, To The English Mind.

It Is The Rooted Instinct In Men To Admire What Is Better And More Beautiful Than Themselves.

Human Nature Has A Much Greater Genius For Sameness Than For Originality.

It Is Mediocrity Which Makes Laws And Sets Mantraps And Spring-guns In The Realm Of Free Song, Saying Thus Far Shalt Thou Go And No Further.

Two Meanings Have Our Lightest Fantasies,- One Of The Flesh, And Of The Spirit One.