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This writer is very often not the one whom posterity remembers--not the one who carries the style of the age farthest towards its ideal type, and gives it its charm and its perfection.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “This writer is very often not the one whom posterity remembers--not the one who carries the style of the age farthest…”
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He notes that often the most influential writers are not the ones remembered by history.
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