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Monday, November 2, 2020

FORMERLY we used to canonize our heroes," Oscar Wilde wrote in 1891. "The modern method is to vulgarize them.

 "FORMERLY we used to canonize our heroes," Oscar Wilde wrote in 1891. "The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable."   https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/20/books/critic-s-notebook-biography-becomes-a-blood-sport.html

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