Quotes by Clarendon

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very >>

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes abo >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. >>

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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for >>

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them.

Clarendon