Best Short Stories by Unknown
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interest--but a delightful humorist, sir. You read him regularly, I
presume?" "Can't say I do." "Of course, sir, books are not all. I agree with our old friend, Montaigne, about that. By the way, which do you prefer, Dickens or Thackeray?" "Can't say, sir. They're strangers to me." "Perhaps you've heard of a man named Walter Scott. As his name implies, he was born in Scotland. He wrote books, you know--novels, stories. Rather good, eh? Human interest--wholesome reading--and all that sort of thing." "Don't recall him." The slight man rose up in his seat. He bore down hard upon the stranger. "Possibly," he suggested, "in the course of your deep and intimate intercourse with men and affairs, you may recall the name of an individual named Shakespeare." "Yes, I think I remember." "How about Macaulay, the greatest essayist in England, and Homer, the prince of ancient poets, with seven birthplaces? Then there's Emerson and Longfellow and Goethe and--" |
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