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«A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.»
Author: Edith Hamilton
(Author, Educator)
| Keywords:
a people, historical, literature, no show, reconstruction, Show People, textbook, textbooks, The Writings, Writings
«Even now a team of linguists is at work translating Don Revie's writings on the game [of football] from the original gibberish into Arabic.»
Author: Michael Parkinson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
Arabic, at work, Don, football team, gibberish, translating, Writings
«It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.»
«Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for»
«But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?»
«A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Value
| Keywords:
antiquities, exactness, The Only Ones, Writings
«In all my writings my aim has been to spare sinners and assail sin»
«Literature is a term that cannot be applied to writings or poems that reel off tales that are false. It should not emerge from the egotistic fancies of the individual.»
«If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
censorship, Cicero, Horace, Juvenal, philosophical, Rome, Writings
«Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
accursed, cast away, The Writings, Writings
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