'Humph!' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over a poodle in the drawing-room, and squirted a bottle of porter right into a lady's face. 'Who's goin' besides ourselves?' asked Romford, wishing to know the worst at once. 'Better be killed than frightened to death,' thought he. - Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds.
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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor! - Aeneid, The.
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Literature is news that stays news.
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.
Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.
