Oscar Wilde quote about greatness from Intentions - Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
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Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
 Oscar Wilde, Intentions (1891). copy citation

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Author Oscar Wilde
Source Intentions
Topic greatness cheapness
Date 1891
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/887/887-h/887-h.htm

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“Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
Ernest. My dear fellow!
Gilbert. I am afraid it is true. Formerly we used to canonise our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarise them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
Ernest. May I ask, Gilbert, to whom you allude?
Gilbert. Oh! to all our second-rate littérateurs. We are overrun by a set of people who, when poet or painter passes away, arrive at the house along with the undertaker, and forget that their one duty is to behave as mutes.” source

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