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Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.

George Saintsbury

When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.

George Saintsbury

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

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