Reception and Influence
“ | If he had done nothing more than to create Archie Goodwin, Rex Stout would deserve the gratitude of whatever assessors watch over the prosperity of American literature. For surely Archie is one of the folk heroes in which the modern American temper can see itself transfigured. | ” |
— Jacques Barzun |
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“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fallthe company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (18391894)
“Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies resources, and minimized their own.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)
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