Thoughts do not fail of acceptance because they are not commonplace enough, but because they are not true enough; and, in the sort of writing about which we are here speaking, truth is a thing which can be detected better by the man who knows life than by the man who knows only logic.
Wilson asserts that truth in writing is best understood by those who have real-life experiences rather than just theoretical knowledge.
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