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Yes, It's Hard To Write. But It's Harder Not To.

Familiar Life, Tending To Sordidness, Had Been Succeeded By Remote Life, Generally Idealized; Historical Detail Had Been Brought In To Teach Readers Who Were Being Entertained.

The Most Familiar Quotations Are The Most Likely To Be Misquoted. Some Misquotations Are Still Variable, Some Have Settled Down To False Versions That Have Obscured The True Ones. They Have Passed Over From Literature Into Speech.

The First Writers Are First And The Rest, In The Long Run, Nowhere But In Anthologies.

The Two Most Common Charges Against The Older Fiction, That It Pleased Wickedly And That It Taught Nothing, Had Broken Down Before The Discovery, Except In Illiberal Sects, That The Novel Is Fitted Both For Honest Use And For Pleasure.