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DAYS LIKE THESE: 30 OCTOBER 1826

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20021030
Author:compiled by Ian Irvine

Sir Walter Scott, novelist, writes in his diary: "Some of our friends in London had pretended that at Paris I might stand some chance of being encountered by the same sort of tumultuary reception which I met in Ireland: but for this I see no ground. It is a point on which I am totally indifferent - as a literary man, I cannot affect to despise public applause - as a private gentleman I have always been embarassed and displeased with popular clamours even when in my favour. I know very well that those who applaud me today would be as ready to hiss me tomorrow ... Now all this disclamation is ...

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