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Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.

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The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house is built-story after story; and no edifice has any chance of standing unless it has a broad foundation and a solid frame.

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There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.

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In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.

Brander Matthews

Brander Matthews

Brander Matthews

Born: February 21, 1852

Died: March 31, 1929 (aged 77)

Bio: James Brander Matthews was an American writer and educator. He was the first full-time professor of dramatic literature at an American university and played a significant role in establishing theater as a subject worthy of formal study in the academic world.

Known for:

The Oxford Book Of American Essays (1914)
Poems of American patriotism (1882)
Inquiries and opinions (1907)
The development of the drama (1903)
Vignettes of Manhattan (1894)

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