"Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written in the world."

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Source : George Saintsbury, Foreword By Mohit K. Ray (2004). “History Of English Criticism”, p.535, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

George Saintsbury

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“Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.”
“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.”
“The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.”
“I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.”
“I look upon cancer in the same way that I look upon heart disease, arthritis, high blood pressure, or even obesity, for that matter, in that by dramatically strengthening the body's immune system through diet, nutritional supplements, and exercise, the body can rid itself of the cancer, just as it does in other degenerative diseases. Consequently, I wouldn't have chemotherapy and radiation because I'm not interested in therapies that cripple the immune system, and, in my opinion, virtually ensure failure for the majority of cancer patients.”
“Sometimes I worry that thereâ€™s not enough room in my brain for both my dreams and reality that Iâ€™m a hard drive with limited gigabytes and one day I wonâ€™t be able to maintain the firewall between them. I wonder if thatâ€™s what senility is.”
“Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.”
“Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change.”

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