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Charlotte Brontë • Jane Eyre: (Annotated Edition)
All mothers in that land were holy.
Charlotte Gilman • Herland
Isabella Winslow
@ringingbelle
The quote you’re thinking of is likely:
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
This is by Oscar Wilde, from his essay “The Critic as Artist” published in 1891.
It’s often paraphrased simply as:
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”
But Wilde’s original includes the more biting second half, emphasizin
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Top names of the 1880s
Johanna
@johannaeinsiedler
Katherine Mansfield on Bliss. I threw down Bliss with the exclamation, ‘She’s done for!’ Indeed I don’t see how much faith in her as woman or writer can survive that sort of story. I shall have to accept the fact, I’m afraid, that her mind is a very thin soil, laid an inch or two deep upon very barren rock. For Bliss is long enough to give her a ch
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