Some people may not sympathize with these men and their feelings; then let me say "So much the better." You learn more from people who contradict you and challenge your ideas, than from people who echo what you say. "What is the good", asked a great man, "of reading a book, when you agree with all of it?"
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Sunday, March 05, 2023
So Much the Better
T.R. Glover (1869-1943), The Challenge of the Greek and Other Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1942), p. 3: