"There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition."
— Henry James

January 1, 1970

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"Anthony Trollope," Century Magazine (July 1883); reprinted in Partial Portraits (1888)