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I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
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.
In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, read more
In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather read more
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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.
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
