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'I'd rather have written any symphony of Brahms' than any play of Ibsen's.'

Among gods, as among office-holders, few die and none resign.

One is almost staggered, indeed, by such critical imbecility, even in a college professor.

... in consequence, the banal ideas and cautious, stupid habits of mind of the great masses of inferior men prevail among us as nowhere else on earth ...

'I'd rather have written any symphony of Brahms' than any play of Ibsen's.'

Among gods, as among office-holders, few die and none resign.

One is almost staggered, indeed, by such critical imbecility, even in a college professor.

... in consequence, the banal ideas and cautious, stupid habits of mind of the great masses of inferior men prevail among us as nowhere else on earth ...

'I'd rather have written any symphony of Brahms' than any play of Ibsen's.'

Among gods, as among office-holders, few die and none resign.

One is almost staggered, indeed, by such critical imbecility, even in a college professor.

'I'd rather have written any symphony of Brahms' than any play of Ibsen's.'

Among gods, as among office-holders, few die and none resign.

I have all these good and bad books in mind. I have read them and survived them and in many cases enjoyed them.

'I'd rather have written any symphony of Brahms' than any play of Ibsen's.'
Among gods, as among office-holders, few die and none resign

'I'd rather have written any symphony of Brahms' than any play of Ibsen's.'

Among gods, as among office-holders, few die and none resign.

'I'd rather have written any symphony of Brahms' than any play of Ibsen's.'

Now and then, however, there appears upon the bookstalls a new book which meets upon fair ground those great books of other years which set the bounds of fiction's symphonic form--a new book which tells, with insight, imagination and conviction, the story of some one man's struggle with his fate--

It is almost as if a Congressman should suddenly become honest, self-respecting, courageous and intelligent.