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Van Wyck Brooks: The instructed man...

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The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Van Wyck Brooks, (Feb 16 1886-1963), US literary critic, cultural historian; He saw literature as an outgrowth of a national culture; wrote America's Coming of Age, 1915.


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