The point about Kilvert is that he was the master of a most exquisite and lovely prose, and the Diary that he kept is not merely a revealing document of the social life of the countryside in his time — it is certainly that — but one of the first half-dozen diaries, and that not the least moving, in our literature.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The point about Kilvert is that he was the master of a most exquisite and lovely prose, and the Diary that he kept is not merely a revealing document of the social life of the countryside in his time — it is certainly that — but one of the first half-dozen diaries, and that not the least moving, in our literature." in the context of "A. L. Rowse, 'Kilvert's Diary', The English Spirit: Essays in History and Literature (1944), p. 238" to mean that wisdom is timeless.