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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.

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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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