4 quotes by James Payn

“In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.” — James Payn

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“How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!” — James Payn

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“For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.” — James Payn

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“And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.” — James Payn

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