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Excerpt from Meissonier
N all matters of disputation I think that the biographer and the critic should be two persons: the witness should not assume the function of the advocate.
There is no greater temptation than hero-worship to the student of the life of a man of genius and industry and worth, and it is impossible to study the history of such a life as the following without becoming filled with sympathy for its subject.
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