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Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
Author: Henry S. Canby
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Author: Russell Green
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If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
Author: Joseph Joubert
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Author: B.f. Skinner
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This book fills a much-needed gap.
Author: Oliver Herford
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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Author: André Maurois
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The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended. - Epistle to a Young Friend, An.
Author: Robert Burns
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For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd;And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still! - Destruction of Sennacherib, The.
Author: George Gordon Byron
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The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other down;The swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While secret laughter titter'd round the place;The bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,The matrons glance that would those looks reprove:These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these,With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please;These were thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,These were thy charms -- but all these charms are fled. - Deserted Village, The.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith. - Every Man In His Humor.
Author: Ben Johnson
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But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose? Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure? Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive. - Paradise Lost.
Author: John Milton
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Here at lastWe shall be free;the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence:Here we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in Hell:Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. - Paradise Lost.
Author: John Milton
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When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest upon;What would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwell?Absence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well! - Paradise Lost.
Author: John Milton
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Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devour;Brightness falls from the air;Queens have died young and fair;Dust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must die;Lord have mercy on us. - Song in Time of Pestilence.
Author: Thomas Nash
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'Humph!' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over a poodle in the drawing-room, and squirted a bottle of porter right into a lady's face. 'Who's goin' besides ourselves?' asked Romford, wishing to know the worst at once. 'Better be killed than frightened to death,' thought he. - Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds.
Author: Robert Smith Surtees
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
Author: Cyril Connolly
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The walls are the publishers of the poor.
Author: Eduardo Galeano
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Author: Andre Gide
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In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.
Author: Aldous Huxley
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Literature is my utopia.
Author: Helen Keller
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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Author: Stephen Leacock
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Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around.
Author: David Lodge
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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
Author: Don Marquis
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In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others.
Author: Andre Maurois
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Author: Ezra Pound
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Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
Author: Joseph Roux
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The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms.
Author: Muriel Rukeyser
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
Author: Stendhal
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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Author: Mark Twain
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Author: Jessamyn West
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Author: Thornton Wilder
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In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? - Nobel Lecture 2000.
Author: Gao Xingjian
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English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.
Author: Marilyn Butler
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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
Author: Northrop Frye
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Perish those who said our good things before we did.
Author: Donatus
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Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Author: John Cotton Dana
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Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
Author: Alexandre Dumas Fils
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You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
Author: Gail Godwin
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Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
Author: G. K. Chesterton
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
Author: Montesquieu
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Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more; where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.
Author: Thomas Gray
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Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.
Author: Anon.
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Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.
Author: James Connolly
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We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.
Author: Elizabeth Drew
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The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.
Author: James Fenton
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For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge o flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities.
Author: Daniel Goleman
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A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
Author: Howard Crosby
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