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The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage.
— James Payn
Tags: stage, young, literature, people

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As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand.
— James Payn
Tags: will, mistake, man, good
In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.
— James Payn
Tags: sooner, sooner-or-later, literature
In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
— James Payn
Tags: our, than, more, education
A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.
— James Payn
Tags: poverty, man, good, life
To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.
— James Payn
Tags: more, nothing, mind, life
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