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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4297/">Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/author/7717/">Wilde, Oscar</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/tag/biography/">biography</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>