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Quote by Richard Livingstone
I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great l

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

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The object of literature is to make man a wiser and happier being. The poet makes us happy because he tells us how we may become so. – Charles Lanman, “Thoughts on Literature,” 1840

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The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. – Sarah Orne Jewett, letter to Willa Cather

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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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I… was seized very early with a passion for literature, which has been the ruling passion of my life, and the great source of my enjoyments. – David Hume (1712–1776)

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