Lytton Strachey Quotes & Sayings

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Suggest Revision: Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.
 
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Suggest Revision: The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
 
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Suggest Revision: The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
 
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Suggest Revision: The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
 
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Suggest Revision: The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.
 
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Suggest Revision: The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.
 
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Suggest Revision: There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.
 
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Suggest Revision: Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.
 
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Suggest Revision: Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.
 
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Suggest Revision: When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.
 
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