We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, … - George Saintsbury

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No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the theoreticians, whose language was mathematics. She had not understood mathematics until he had explained to her that it was the symbolic language of relationships. "And relationships," he had told her, "contained the essential meaning of life. "

George Saintsbury

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.

Admire, Men, Ought, Thinking, Thought, Writing

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The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.

Atmosphere, Circumstances, Exercise, Growth, Italian, Time

The hardest thing to attain. . . is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.

Appreciation, Attain, Difference, Differences, Hardest

When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.

Writing, People, Literature, Write, Lay

I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

Cooking, Dinner, Food, Serious, Think, Thinking

But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older - as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice "at the closing of the day". I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.

Becomes, Flirting, Meal, Meals, Nothing, Thinking