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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg _ The Waste Books
In his , Dante Alighieri names Virgil, with many tokens of respect, as his teacher, and yet as Herr Meinhard remarks, makes such ill use of him: clear proof that even in the days of Dante one praised the ancients without knowing why. This respect for poets one does not understand and yet wishes to equal is the source of the bad writing in our literature.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg _ The Waste Books