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«Books are humanity in print.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
| About:
Books,
Literature
| Keywords:
books, humanities, humanity, In Humanity, out of print, print, prints
«Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
| About:
Books,
History,
Literature
| Keywords:
carrier, carriers, civilization, crippled, cripples, crippling, dumb, dumber, dumbest, history of science, literature, speculation, speculations, standstill
«Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
| About:
Books,
Literature
| Keywords:
carrier, carriers, crippled, cripples, crippling, dumb, engines, erected, erecting, erects, history of science, lighthouse, lighthouses, literature, sea change, speculation, speculations, standstill, The Lighthouse, The Sea, windows
«Bad literature is a form of treason.»
«A great speech is literature.»
«All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
American literature, Finn, huckleberry, Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, twain
«A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
immovable, inquiring, revolt
«As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
augment, augmented, augmenting, augments, lapse, lapsed, lapses, lapsing, thefts
«A wicked book cannot repent»
Author: Proverb
| About:
Literature
«Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.»
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