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"The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander."
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"Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire."
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"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."
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"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language."
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"Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."
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"And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book."
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"Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world."
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"The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell."
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"Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind."
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"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."
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"The Siren waits thee, singing song for song."
Romantic
"Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age."
Age
"There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer."
Delight
"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked."
Ambition
"Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose."
Poetry
"Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend."
Man
"The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love."
Love
"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven."
Art
"My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them."
Thought
"The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour."
Power
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