But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose? Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure? Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive. - Paradise Lost.
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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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The death of Dr. Hudson is a loss to the republick of letters.
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Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
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A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
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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.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
