The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary st…

T. S. Eliot
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The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards. ✨ T. S. Eliot (2014). Essays Ancient and Modern, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards. ✨ T. S. Eliot (2014). Essays Ancient and Modern, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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