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Goldwin Smith

"If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication."

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"If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication."

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"It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city."
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"Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches."
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"Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God."
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"The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party."
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"No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest."
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"There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still."
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"Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express."
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"Rome was great in arms, in government, in law."
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"The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke."
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