Carl Clinton Van Doren Quotes
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
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Author Details:
Type:
Critic Quotes
Category:
American Critic Quotes
Date of Birth:
September 10, 1885
Date of Death:
July 18, 1950
Nationality:
American
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