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• George Henry Lewes:

  Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

• George Henry Lewes:

  Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their upright

• George Henry Lewes:

  All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

• George Henry Lewes:

  Sincerity is moral truth.

• George Henry Lewes:

  All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing

• George Henry Lewes:

  Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

• George Henry Lewes:

  Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

• George Henry Lewes:

  Insight is the first condition of Art.

• George Henry Lewes:

  In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

• George Henry Lewes:

  Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing ne