Hugh Blair's Quote - The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of sty

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The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of sty

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. – Hugh Blair

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Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties. – Hugh Blair

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Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner. – Hugh Blair

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man. – Hugh Blair

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The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. – Washington Irving

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. – E.P. Whipple

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Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West. – E.M. Forster

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. – Joseph Brodsky

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