Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
Charles Eliot Norton Quotes
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.
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| Birth: | 16th November, 1827 |
| Death: | 21st October, 1908 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Author, Critic, Professor |
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Charles Eliot Norton was a leading American author, social critic, and professor of art. He was a progressive social reformer and a liberal activist whom many of his contemporaries considered the most cultivated man in the United States.
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