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“Sacred to the memory of printing, the art preservative of all
arts. This was first invented about the year 1440.
[Lat., Memoriae sacrum
Typographia
Ars artium omnium
Conservatrix
Hic primum inventa
Circa annum mccccxl.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: inscription on the facade of the house once occupied by Laurent Koster at Harlem
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“He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable
Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and
Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had
invented the Art of printing.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Sartor Resartus (bk. I, ch. V)
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“Transforms old print
To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes
Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, The Timepiece, l. 363)
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“Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of
reflection ought to know something about the history of the art
of printing.”
Horace Mann Quotes Source: The Common School Journal (February, 1943, Printing and Paper Making)
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“Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.”
Thomas Moore Quotes Source: The Fudge Family in England (letter III)
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“I'll print it,
And shame the fools.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 61)
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“Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in
erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers
had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused
printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and
dignity, thou hast built a paper mill.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Jack Cade at IV, vii)
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“The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,
He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the
manuscript.”
Walt Whitman Quotes Source: Leaves of Grass--Walt Whitman (pt. XV, st. 77)
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