Quotes of Van Wyck Brooks - somelinesforyou

“ How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ 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. ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ 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. ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound… ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound… ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, they have no reserves, and they feed on the true and solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere. ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ 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. ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, they have no reserves, and they feed on the true and solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere. ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, they have no reserves, and they feed on the true and solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere. ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound… ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound… ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound… ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, they have no reserves, and they feed on the true and solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere. ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, they have no reserves, and they feed on the true and solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere. ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, they have no reserves, and they feed on the true and solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere. ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ 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. ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, they have no reserves, and they feed on the true and solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere. ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound… ”

- Van Wyck Brooks

“ A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound… ”

- Van Wyck Brooks
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