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Category Archives: Literature
Horace on Poetry
“No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.” Continue reading
George Bernard Shaw on Reading
“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.” Continue reading
Jules Renard on Literature
“Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.” Continue reading
Paul Valery on Poetry
“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.” Continue reading
Samuel Johnson on Writing
“Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.” Continue reading
Paul Dirac on Science and Poetry
“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.” Continue reading
Thomas Carlyle on Education
“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.” Continue reading
Victor Hugo on Society
“There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.” Continue reading
William Shakespeare on Honesty
“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.” Continue reading
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