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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.
Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around.
Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around.
A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious
men who are deprived of honours or of read more
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious
men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.
We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go read more
Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever. - The Brook.
Literary Men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.
Literary Men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
