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WRITERS > literary critic > John Churton Collins
A wise man...
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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- John Churton Collins, (Mar 26 1848-1908), English literary critic; He was a journalist, essayist and lecturer. His first book was a study of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1874), and later he edited various classical English writers, and published volumes on Bolingbroke and Voltaire in England (1886), a Study of English Literature (1891), a study of Dean Swift (1893), Essays and Studies (1895), Ephemera Critica (1901), Essays in Poetry and Criticism (1905), and Rousseau and Voltaire (1908), his original essays being sharply controversial in tone, but full of knowledge.