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Excerpt from Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature
Ranked as literature may be divided into two classes - those which are read by everybody for a little while and thereafter read by nobody, and those which are read by somebody for ever.. The number of writers who are represented in both classes is not large, but among them is Robert Aris Willmott, the subject of this brief note.
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