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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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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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Literature is news that stays news. – Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading, 1934

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The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight. – Samual McChord Crothers

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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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