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"People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding."
"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible."
"The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses."
"The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man."
"Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means."
"No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead."
"If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?"
"It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans."
"Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere."
"Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright."

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What quotable things has Van Wyck Brooks (b. Plainfield, New Jersey, February 16, 1886; d. Bridgewater, Connecticut, May 2, 1963), the American literary critic, biographer, and historian said or written?

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"Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright." is a quote by Van Wyck Brooks ([fact: ["1071796798@trueknowledge.com"]])

"If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?" is a quote by Van Wyck Brooks ([fact: ["1071796858@trueknowledge.com"]])

"It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans." is a quote by Van Wyck Brooks ([fact: ["1071796926@trueknowledge.com"]])

"Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere." is a quote by Van Wyck Brooks ([fact: ["1071796946@trueknowledge.com"]])

"No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead." is a quote by Van Wyck Brooks ([fact: ["1071796958@trueknowledge.com"]])

"Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means." is a quote by Van Wyck Brooks ([fact: ["1071796986@trueknowledge.com"]])

"People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding." is a quote by Van Wyck Brooks ([fact: ["1071797002@trueknowledge.com"]])

"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible." is a quote by Van Wyck Brooks ([fact: ["1071797018@trueknowledge.com"]])

"The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses." is a quote by Van Wyck Brooks ([fact: ["1071797034@trueknowledge.com"]])

"The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man." is a quote by Van Wyck Brooks ([fact: ["1071797046@trueknowledge.com"]])

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"Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright." is a quote by Van Wyck Brooks

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"If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?" is a quote by Van Wyck Brooks

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"It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans." is a quote by Van Wyck Brooks

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"Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere." is a quote by Van Wyck Brooks

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"Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means." is a quote by Van Wyck Brooks

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"People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding." is a quote by Van Wyck Brooks

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"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible." is a quote by Van Wyck Brooks

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"The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses." is a quote by Van Wyck Brooks

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"The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man." is a quote by Van Wyck Brooks

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