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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a read more
A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought read more
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before read more
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one.
There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one.
