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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

Source: In Shorter Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, by John Bartlett, 1937, 1980, 1992.
-- Stendhal, (Jan 23 1783-1842), French novelist; He was a leading literary figure best known for psychological and political insight in The Red and the Black, 1830.


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