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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.
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on read more
Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.
I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said read more
I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said Tan-Chun. If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.".
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.".
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.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
