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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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Change Quote

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

- Maya Angelou

Love Quote

The strongest evidence of love is sacrifice.

- Caroline Fry

Life Quote

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

- Dr. Seuss

Life Quote

Count your age by friends, not years Count your life by smiles, not tears.

- John Lennon

Relationship Quote

Never have a companion who casts you in the shade.

- Baltasar Gracian

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