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The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and

The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.

Walter Bagehot
Book, Writing, Eye
Walter Bagehot, Norman St. John-Stevas (1965). “The collected works of Walter Bagehot”

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

Walter Bagehot
Book, Writing, Stupidity
Walter Bagehot (1986). “The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: Miscellany”

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Walter Bagehot
Writing, Teeth, Grinder
'Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen' (1858) 'The First Edinburgh Reviewers'

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

Walter Bagehot
Book, Writing, People
Walter Bagehot (1911). “Literary Studies: The first Edinburgh reviewers (1855) Hartley Coleridge (1852) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1856) Shakespeare the man (1853) John Milton (1859) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1862) William Cowper (1855) Appendices; Letters on the French coup dĚ“etat”

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