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- A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Literature is news that stays news.
- Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972), ABC of Reading (1934) chapter 8
- The least of learning is done in the classrooms.
- Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)
- No wise man ever wished to be younger.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
- Sidney J. Harris
- If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
- Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
- John Erskine (1879 - 1951)
- In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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