| I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil. -- Voltaire |
| Author:
VoltaireEra:
1694 |
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| A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. -- John Henry Newman |
| Author:
Newman, John HenryEra:
1801 |
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| In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
| Author:
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward RobertEra:
1803 |
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| Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. -- Francis Bacon |
| Author:
Bacon, FrancisEra:
1561 |
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| The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author:
Goethe, Johann VonEra:
1749 |
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| Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. -- T. S. Eliot |
| Author:
Eliot, T. S.Era:
1888 |
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