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The difference between journalism and literature is that journalis

The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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To literature belongs the mighty privilege of embalming, for all ages, the departed kings of intellect. There they repose within the eternal pyramids of their fame. – Robert Aris Willmott, “Glimpses of the Pageant of Literature,” c.1844

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I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart. – Richard Livingstone

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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us! – James Russell Lowell

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