Walter Pater 1839%C2%961894

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    With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespear when I measure my mind against his.... But I am bound to add that I pity the man who cannot enjoy Shakespear. He has outlasted thousands of abler thinkers, and will outlast a thousand more.
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    To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
    —Walter Pater (1839–1894)