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Literature is the immortality of speech.
Literature is the immortality of speech.
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
Literary Men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.
Literary Men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, read more
Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish read more
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
