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Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age.

Lord Chesterfield

A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

G. K. Chesterton

Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.

Northrop Frye

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Thomas Hobbes

What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!

James Russell Lowell

In Art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

Oscar Wilde

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People Quote

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

- Maya Angelou

Friendship Quote

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

- Euripides

Inspirational Quote

You cannot wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

- Jack London

Understanding Quote

To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.

- Sun Yat-sen

Life Quote

The time we waste trying to find out what life is all about could be spent loving someone and finding out.

- Jack Harris

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