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Archive for ‘Literary Quotes’
10-22-09
Hilaire Belloc
Quoted: Hilaire Belloc
“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ‘His
sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
—On His Books (1929)
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Quoted: W. H. Auden
“Some books are undeservedly forgotten;
none are undeservedly remembered.”
—The Dyer’s Hand (1963)
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Quoted: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Quoted: Jorge Luis Borges
“Let others be proud of the pages they have written; I am proud of the pages I have read.”
—Jorge Luis Borges
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