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It Is Difficult To Admonish Frenchmen. Their Habit Of Mind Is Unfavorable To Preachment.

The Labors Of The True Critic Are More Essential To The Author, Even, Than To The Reader.

Just As We Are Often Moved To Merriment For No Other Reason Than That The Occasion Calls For Seriousness, So We Are Correspondingly Serious When Invited Too Freely To Be Amused.

When The Contemplative Mind Is A French Mind, It Is Content, For The Most Part, To Contemplate France. When The Contemplative Mind Is An English Mind, It Is Liable To Be Seized At Any Moment By An Importunate Desire To Contemplate Morocco Or Labrador.

History Is Not Written In The Interests Of Morality.