It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
Van Wyck Brooks
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Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
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Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
- Van Wyck Brooks