Vulgar words in Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism (Page 1)
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For centuries they held the novel suspect as a kind of bastard literature, probably immoral, and certainly dangerous to intellectual health.
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But it is not inevitable that Americans who are neither headline and editorial writers, nor impassioned orators, regardless of facts, should continue to damn the English because their ancestors and ours founded America.
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Is it true that because we are not to be damned for playing golf on Sunday, nothing can damn us?
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But when books by the well known came to his desk it was safer to praise than to damn, because in damning one had to give reasons, whereas indiscriminate praise needed neither knowledge nor excuse.
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"Oh, Life," says Ahab, "here I am, proud as a Greek god, and yet standing debtor to this blockhead [the carpenter] for a bone to stand on!...