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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 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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Literature is the question minus the answer. – Roland Barthes

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The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. – David Swing

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The extent of a palace is measured from east to west, or from north to south; but that of a literary work, from the earth to heaven; so that there may be found as much range and power of mind in a few pages… as in a whole epic poem. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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