Every encounter with human truth – Jane Austen deftly showing how little we know our own motives; Dickens revealing the meaning of “economy” in the cheerful and charitable housekeeping of Esther Summerson, his finest heroine; or Shakespeare offering us the foolish Lear, mad and childish and yet “every inch a king” – can expand the soul; it helps to set us free from the common delusions of our time, the lies we believe and the lies we tell. But.
-Anthony M. Esolen
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