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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.
The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.
Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, read more
Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.
