Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons fo… - George Saintsbury

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Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.

George Saintsbury

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George Edward Bateman Saintsbury (23 October 1845 – 28 January 1933) was a prolific and popular English historian and literary scholar.

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Birth Name: George Edward Bateman Saintsbury

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We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.

Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right. - George Saintsbury

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