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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of read more
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying read more
Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they read more
Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before read more
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
